Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Süß

From 1994-1998 he studied business and economics at the University of Wuppertal. Between 1999 and 2009 he worked as a research assistant and assistant professor at the Chair for Organization and Strategic Management at the FernUniversität in Hagen, where he received his PhD in 2004 and his habilitation in 2009. During the winter semesters 2008/2009 and 2009/2010, he served as an interim professor at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Since April 2010 he holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. In 2014, he declined an offer for a W3 professorship in Human Resources Management and Business Governance at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

He has published several articles about organization, human resource management and (international) management. Furthermore, he is a reviewer for international and national journals and conferences. His ResearchGate profile can be found here. He is a member of the Arbeitskreis Empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung (AKempor). In 2016 he became a member of the editorial board of the German Journal of Human Resource Management (ZfP). From 2022 until 2024 he was a member of the editorial board of Industrielle Beziehungen and in 2022 he became a member of the editorial board of Management Review Quarterly. From 2012 until 2014 he was a member of the editorial board of the European Management Journal. He also taught courses at several universities including the University Duisburg-Essen, the European School of Management ESCP-EAP Berlin, the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (Austria) and the Düsseldorf Business School.

Currently, he is the leader of the BMWK-project TRAIBER and from February 2023 until January 2026 he was the leader of the BMFTR-project ProHome. From February 2022 until September 2024, coordinator of the BAuA-project @home. From February 2022 until January 2024 coordinator of the BMJV-project RESERVE. From April 2021 until September 2023 coordinator of the HBS-project “Digitale Arbeit gesundheitsförderlich gestalten”. From May 2019 until September 2022 coordinator of the research project DigiWerk. From July 2009 until April 2013 he led the research project „Freelancers in conflict between flexibility and stability”, which is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Social Fund. From 2016 until 2019 he was the leader of the BMBF-project DYNAMIK 4.0, from 2017 until 2022 of the BMBF-subproject SEEGEN and PragmatiKK and from 2014 until 2023 he was the leader of the research seminar Online-Partizipation. 

Since April 2016 speaker of the Manchot Graduate School "Competitiveness of Young Enterprises" (WEJU). Participation in successful external funding (e.g., DFG, BMBF, the state of NRW).

From October 2013 until December 2014 and since October 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. From January 2015 until September 2017 he was Vice President for Quality in Studies and Human Resource Management. Since May 2016 President of the Academic Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf Business School.

From October 2019 to September 2021, he chaired the Scientific Commission Human Resource Management of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB). Since 2020, he has been leader of the Arbeitskreis Personal und Arbeit der Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

In January 2015 and again in January 2018, he received the Medal of Honor of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for outstanding contributions to the university. In November 2017, he was awarded the Reinhard and Emmi Heynen Prize for exceptional scientific achievements.

Detailed profiles of Professor Süß were published in Human Resources Manager (September 2013) and in PersonalQuarterly (May 2023).

Research interests:

• Human Resource Management and Leadership
• Work Flexibility
• Applicant Attraction
• Work Stress
• Other aspects of Organizational Behaviour, e.g. Employee Voice