- Entrepreneurs’ Evaluations of Mentors: The Role of Value Similarities and Mentors’ Experiences. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy 8 (3), 2025 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
Julia Kirsch, M.Sc.

Office hours: on appointment
julia.kirsch(at)tum.de
Research interests:
Entrepreneurial affect & cognition
Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Academic background:
Since 12/2021
Ph.D. Candidate at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute, Professorship of Entrepreneurial Behavior (Prof. Dr. Nicola Breugst) - Technical University of Munich (Germany)
01/2020 – 06/2021
Project Assistant at the Department of Organizational & Business Psychology (Prof. Dr. Hertel) - University of Münster (Germany)
10/2018 – 01/2021
Studies of Psychology (M.Sc.), Major in Personnel & Business - University of Münster (Germany)
07/2016 – 12/2016
Semester abroad at the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior - McMaster University (Ontario, Canada)
10/2014 – 07/2017
Studies of Psychology (B.Sc.) - University of Göttingen (Germany)
Professional background:
Since 08/2020
Co-Founder of the amelia Community (Munich, Germany)
06/2020
Co-Head of Community Management at #wirfürschule Hackathon (Berlin, Germany)
08/2019 – 12/2019
Innovation Analyst at CREATORS Innovation Lab (Tel Aviv, Israel)
09/2017 – 02/2018
Personnel Diagnostics Internship at Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany)
01/2017 – 04/2017
Management Diagnostics & Development Internship at Kienbaum Consultants International (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Publications
Conferences
- Evaluating Entrepreneurs: The Role of Different Performance Types and Observers’ Self-Categorization. Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 2025Copenhagen, Denmark more… BibTeX
- Evaluating Entrepreneurial Performance: How Observers' Self-Categorization Shapes Their Assessments of Successful Entrepreneurs. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), 2025Boston, MA, USA more… BibTeX
- Entrepreneurs’ Evaluations of Mentors: The Role of Value Similarities and Mentors’ Experiences. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy 8 (3), 2025 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Exploring the interplay of stress, well-being and entrepreneurial hustle: a daily diary study of entrepreneurial teams. New Venture Team Design in the Digital Age, 2024Heilbronn, Germany more… BibTeX
- Whose stories capture your attention? Exploring entrepreneurial storytelling as a tool to keep an audience engaged. G-Forum, 2024Ingolstadt, Germany more… BibTeX
- Entrepreneurial team learning: An inductive study. BCERC23, 2023Knoxville, TN more… BibTeX
- Entrepreneurial Team Learning: An Inductive Study. 25th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs (G-Forum), 2022Dresden more… BibTeX