Jan Recker joined the Universität Hamburg in 2021 as Nucleus Professor and holder of the chair for Information Systems and Digital Innovation, funded through the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments.

Jan Recker has held multiple academic appointments. Since 2022, he is Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder (Kristiansand, Norway) and he also holds an Adjunct Professor position with the QUT Business School (Brisbane, Australia) since 2018. He presently is also Visiting Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Previously, he was Professor for Information Systems and Systems Development at the University of Cologne from 2018-2021, Full Professor for Digital Innovation at the School of Management at the QUT Business School in Brisbane, Australia, from 2016-2017, and inaugural holder of the Woolworths Chair of Retail Innovation and Full Professor of Information Systems in the School for Information Systems at QUT in 2012. Since 2012, he is an Honorary Guest Professor at the International School of Software at Wuhan University, China. Jan Recker holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in information systems from the University of Münster and a PhD in Information Systems from the Queensland University of Technology.

Jan Recker is an AIS Fellow, a Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation as well as a Fellow of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association for Information Systems. He is holder of multiple editorial appointments for the leading journals in the field of information systems: he was Editor-in-Chief for Communications of the Association for Information Systems between 2015 and 2020, and he is presently Senior Editor for the MIS Quarterly.

In his research, Jan Recker explores how organizations deal with digital innovation, digital transformation, and digital entrepreneurship. As a field researcher, he has cooperated with particularly large organizations (e.g., Woolworths, SAP, Hilti, Commonwealth Bank, Federal Police, Lufthansa, Ubisoft, federal and state governments) and with particularly small organizations, such as different start‐ups. Jan Recker employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed field methods in his research and is also competent in design research.

Jan Recker’s research has appeared in leading journals in information systems, management science, organization science, computer science, and social science. He has also written popular textbooks on scientific research and data analysis, which are in use in over 500 institutions in over 60 countries. He ranks as one of the most published information systems academics of all time. In 2019, he was named #1 Business Researcher under 40 years of age by the German publication Wirtschaftswoche. Jan Recker is one of the Universität Hamburg’s most cited scholars.