DrNina-Birte Schirrmacher

Nina Schirrmacher joined the University of Sydney Business School as a Lecturer in the Discipline of Business Information Systems in January 2025. She completed her Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School, France and Singapore. After graduating, Nina worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she was an Assistant Professor at the KIN Center for Digital Innovation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Nina has a vivid interest in researching cybercrime and cybersecurity, such as the strategies and capabilities used by defenders and threat actors in takedowns of large-scale organized cyber threats. In addition, Nina is interested in new ways of working and organizing, such as in blockchain-enabled organizations ("Decentralized Autonomous Organizations"). Her research has been published at leading IS conferences, including the International Conference on Information Systems, where her work has been awarded runner-up of the Best Kauffman Paper Award and nominated for the Best Theory Development Paper award.

Nina regularly serves as an Associate Editor for leading conferences, and has received Best Associate Editor at major conferences, such as ECIS. Nina is also the treasurer of the SIG GTM that works to foster a community around theory-building qualitative research approaches.