Dr. Leif Brändle is a lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Entrepreneurship Research Group at the University of Hohenheim. He is a fellow in the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung's Eliteprogramm für Postdocs and runs the research project "Mapping the class ceiling in entrepreneurship".
In his research, Dr. Leif Brändle collaborates in international author teams, he was a visiting scholar at Texas A&M's Mays Business School, and he regularly presents papers at international conferences. In addition to his research interests, he was involved in organizing an international conference on social innovation (Social Innovation Summit) and is a founding member of the network of social entrepreneurs in Baden-Württemberg (SocEntBW e.V.). In 2017, he was invited to participate in a panel discussion with German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel as a representative of volunteers working in refugee aid.
In his teaching activities, he has been a certified personal initiative trainer in Prof. Dr. Michael Frese's group since 2018 and taught entrepreneurs in the Philippines at Ataneo de Manila University in this context. For the university program "Startup Garage Hohenheim" he was nominated for the teaching award of the state of Baden-Württemberg together with Prof. Dr. Andreas Kuckertz and Dr. Martin Allmendinger.
His research interests include social inequality and social networks in entrepreneurship as well as network dynamics of high-technology firms. His research has been published in Small Business Economics, Business and Society, and the Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Since 2021, Dr. Leif Brändle has been the managing editor of the Springer journal Management Review Quarterly.
His research has been recognized with best paper awards at the 2018, 2022, 2023 FGF G-Forum, the 2019 ECSB 3E Conference, and the 2021 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
