PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2025–Present, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Advanced Institute of Business, Tongji University
• 2022–2025, Postdoctoral Researcher & Digital Health Team Lead, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• 2014–2022, Research Associate, University of Cologne (until 2017), University of Kassel (until 2018), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

VISITS & GUEST POSITIONS

• 2024–2025, Guest Researcher, School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
• 2024, Visiting Researcher, Department of Management Science, Tongji University
• 2018, Visiting Researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Seoul, South Korea
• 2017, Visiting Researcher, Department of Design & Innovation, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Selection)

• Rank, S.; Jin, D.; Thiebes, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2026): Privacy in Collaborative Deep Learning Systems: A Taxonomy and Archetypes. ACM Computing Surveys, 58(11), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3801094
• Sunyaev, A.; Benlian, A.; Pfeiffer, J.; Jussupow, E.; Thiebes, S.; Mädche, A.; Gawlitza, J. (2025): High-Risk Artificial Intelligence. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 65, 981–994. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-025-00942-6
• Toussaint, P.A.; Leiser, F.; Thiebes, S.; Schlesner, M.; Brors, B.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Omics Data: A Systematic Mapping Study. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(1), bbad453. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbad453
• Thiebes, S.; Gao, F.; Briggs, R.O.; Schmidt-Kraepelin, M.; Sunyaev, A. (2023). Design Concerns for Multiorganizational, Multistakeholder Collaboration: A Study in the Healthcare Industry. Journal of Management Information Systems, 40(1), 239-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2023.2172771
• Thiebes, S.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. Electronic Markets, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-020-00441-4

RESEARCH FUND

• Conceptualization and Measurement of Interdependent Privacy Risks and Concerns, Research Fund for International Scientists, NSFC (Grant number: W2633237), 2027-2028

CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selection)

• Thiebes, S.; Schmidt-Kraepelin, M.; Toussaint, P.A.; Lyytinen, K.; Sunyaev, A. (2024). Privacy-Utility Trade-Offs in Genetic Data Sharing and the Moderating Role of Social Distance: An Interdependent Privacy Calculus. Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec.
• Fallon, M.; Schmidt-Kraepelin, M.; Warsinsky, S.; Thiebes, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Social Comparison in mHealth: The Role of Similar Others and Feelings of Envy. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2020), Virtual Conference, Dec.
• Thiebes, S.; Lyytinen, K.; Sunyaev, A. (2017). Sharing is About Caring? Motivating and Discouraging Factors in Sharing Individual Genomic Data. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Seoul, South Korea, Dec.

TEACHING

• Qualitative Research Methods (postgraduate), Tongji University, School of Economics and Management
• Digital Health, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, Department of Economics and Management
• Explainable AI for Life Scientists (part of a lecture series), Helmholtz Information & Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health), Germany

REVIEWING EXPERIENCE

Ad hoc reviewer for: AI and Ethics; BISE; CAIS; Electronic Commerce Researcher; EJIS; Electronic Markets; Information & Management; ISJ; JIT; JMIR; JMIS; AMCIS; DESRIST; ECIS; HICSS; ICIS; CHI PLAY; Pre-ICIS WISP

JOURNAL ROLES

• Editorial Review Board Member, Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
• Associate Editor (Special Issue), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
• Associate Editor (Special Issue), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
• Associate Editor, Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
• Associate Editor (Special Issue), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)

CONFERENCE ROLES

• Minitrack Chair, HICSS (2023, 2024, 2026, 2027)
• Associate Editor, ECIS (2022, 2024, 2025)
• Associate Editor, ICIS (2022, 2024, 2025)
• Member of the Program Committee, Pre-ICIS WISP (2018, 2019, 2020)

EXTERNAL GRANT REVIEWER

• Incentive Fund 2026, Technical University of Munich
• Grand Challenges Initiative 2025, Berlin University Alliance

MEMBERSHIPS

• Association for Information Systems
• AIS SIGData (founding member and Faculty Development Director)
• AIS SIGHealth
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• 2024: 2024 Best Paper Award (Junior Category) | Association for Information Systems (AIS) SIG Health
• 2024: KHYS Research Travel Grant | Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• 2023: Most Excellent Dissertation Award | German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD)
• 2023: Research Award for an Outstanding Dissertation | KIT-Department of Economics and Management
• 2020: Best Theory Paper Award | International Conference on Information Systems
• 2019: Best Reviewer Award | International Conference on Information Systems
• 2018: IPaK Mobility Grant | University of Cologne and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• 2018: Best Reviewer Award | Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy
• 2017: Conference Travel Scholarship | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• 2017: Doctoral Fellow | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
• 2013–2014: German National Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) | German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and IBM Germany
• 2013: Dean’s Award (top 5% in postgraduate studies) | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne