Prof. Dr. Caroline Fischer

Prof. Dr. Caroline Fischer is Chair of Public Administration and Management at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on the micro-level dynamics of public administration, with particular emphasis on the motivation, values, attitudes, and behavior of public servants and citizens. She is especially interested in topics such as error, risk, crisis management and learning, human resource management in the public sector, and technological developments in government.

Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, including research on digital transformation in the healthcare sector and cross-border collaboration. She previously led the Interreg project BRIDGE, which studied cross-border resource pooling in healthcare and is an active member of the interdisciplinary research group on technology in healthcare transformations.

Prof. Fischer earned her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) at the University of Potsdam with a dissertation on knowledge management in the public sector. Before joining Kassel, she held academic positions as an assistant professor at the University of Twente and as a postdoc at the University of Potsdam. She is an alumna of the Young Academy of Twente, where she served on the board for several years

Her research has been funded by organizations including Erasmus+, Interreg, the European Academy of Management, the German Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, and the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation. She publishes in leading journals in the disciplines of public administration and management, but also puts emphasis on new developments in the field, such as newly developed open access journals and journals committed to failed research. Prof. Fischer is also actively committed to Open Science, was an Open Science Fellowat the Wikimedia Foundation and regularly shares her research data and code.