• 2025–Present, Assistant Professor at Advanced Institute of Business, Tongji University
• 2024, Visiting Researcher, Department of Management Science, Tongji University
• 2024–2025, Guest Researcher, School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 2024–2025, Principal Investigator (Data Science area), Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health), Germany
• 2022–2025, Postdoctoral Researcher & Digital Health Team Lead, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• 2018, Visiting Researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Seoul, South Korea
• 2018–2022, Research Associate, Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• 2017, Visiting Researcher, Department of Design & Innovation, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• 2017–2018, Research Associate, Chair for Information Systems and Systems Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany
• 2014–2017, Research Associate, Department of Information Systems and Systems Development, University of Cologne, Germany

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Selection)

• 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
• Leiser, F.; Rank, S.; Thiebes, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2023). Medical Informed Machine Learning: A Scoping Review and Future Research Directions. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 145, 102676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2023.102676
• 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
• Thiebes, S.; Toussaint, P.A.; Ju, J.; Ahn, J.H.; Lyytinen, K.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Valuable Genomes: Taxonomy and Archetypes of Business Models in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing. Journal of Medical Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.2196/14890

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 2020), 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.

Reviewing Experience

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

Journal Roles

• Associate Editor, Special Issue on "The future of creating and distributing value in digital health ecosystems", European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
• Associate Editor, Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
• Associate Editor, Special Issue on “Reimagining Digital Health: Advances in Patient-Centeredness, Artificial Intelligence, and Data-Driven Care Research”, Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)

Conference Roles

• Minitrack Chair, IT Adoption, Diffusion, and Evaluation in Healthcare (HICSS 2026)
• Associate Editor, Health IS Track (ECIS 2025, 2026)
• Associate Editor, IS in Healthcare Track (ICIS 2024, 2025)
• Minitrack Chair, Data Platforms and Ecosystems in Healthcare (HICSS 2023, HICSS 2024)
• Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Work Track (ECIS 2022, ECIS 2024)
• Associate Editor, Digital Learning and IS Curricula Track (ICIS 2022)
• Member of the Program Committee (WISP 2018/2019/2020)

• 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