Christian Schafer

Christian Schäfer is a Full-Professor at the Department of Business Administration and Healthcare at Cooperative State University Mannheim (DHBW) Germany and he serves as an independent advisor for customer insights research and strategic forecasting in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Companies. He teaches quantitative Methods, simulation in strategic forecasting and market research in Healthcare. His research interests are in the fields of quantification of uncertainty, Patient-Behaviour-Modelling, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and pattern detection in large datasets. Prior to taking his current role in 2015, Christian covered different Management positions in Marketing, Customer Insights, Forecasting and PM-Strategy within an international Pharmaceutical Company for 8 years. Christian earned a Diploma (Master) in Economics, a Master of Science in Business Administration degree from University of Gävle, Sweden and received his PhD (Dr.) from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, where he worked 4 years as a research assistant. His work has been published in established international scientific journals and he has authored two books.