Matthias Seifert

Matthias Seifert is an Adjunct Professor of the Operations and Technology Department at IE University. In addition, he is currently serving as a technical member (representing Germany) of the Exploratory Team on Prediction and Intelligence Analysis at the NATO Science and Technology Organization. Previously, he was affiliated to the London Business School, Cambridge University and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr. Seifert’s research focuses on decision making under risk and uncertainty and managerial forecasting. His work has been published in top academic journals including Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Operations Management, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (and others) as well as in practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Dr. Seifert is an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Forecasting and serves on the editorial board of outlets including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Decision Analysis.

In the past, he was an elected Council Member of the Decision Analysis Society (INFORMS). His work has been featured by public media including Forbes India, Ideas for Leaders, CBS News, the Financial Times International (“Professor of the Week”), Psychology Today and others. In 2016, he has been named as one of “The World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors” by Poets & Quants.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor, Operations and Business Analytics Department, IE University, 2026–present
Associate Professor, Operations and Business Analytics Department (previously Operations and Technology ), IE University, 2015–present
Assistant Professor, Operations and Technology Department , IE University, Spain, 2009–2015
London Business School, 2007–2009
London School of Economics, 2008
University College London (UCL), 2008

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D. in Management, Judge Business School, Cambridge University (UK), 2004–2009
M.Sc. in Decision Sciences, Operational Research Department, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (UK), 2003–2004
M.A. in International Business, University of Hamburg (Germany), 2002–2004
B.Sc. in Economics, Växjö University (Sweden), 2001–2002
B.A. (Hons) in Business Administration, University of Hamburg (Germany), 1999–2002