Dr.-Ing. Hasselmann, MBA (Technology Management) works as a patent scientist at Da Vinci Partners LLC, helping clients in infrastructure and urban infrastructure technologies. This includes rail, road, urban air transportation, gas, water, energy as well as information and communication technologies.
Dr.-Ing. Hasselmann earned her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in urban infrastructure technologies and management from the University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, in 2004 with a thesis on energy transition and decentralized energy technologies in urban areas in Germany by utilizing interdisciplinary approaches ranging from GIS-based graph theory to urban economics, governance and technology management. Her Ph.D. was funded by the DFG and she took part in an interdisciplinary course program in electricity planning, energy economics, energy technologies and philosophy of technology. In addition, she earned her master’s degree in architecture and urban planning from the University of Technology of Dresden, Germany. Dr.-Ing. Hasselmann, earned a second master’s degree in Technology Management (MBA Tech. Mngt.) from The Open University, United Kingdom. Currently she is finishing her Habilitation in infrastructure management and her bachelor’s degree in law at FIS, Switzerland.
Dr. Hasselmann has 10 years of working experience in industry working with Swiss, German and Austrian clients in the infrastructure technology sector in the field of strategic technology management & business development, including IP management; Research & Development as well as teaching in the position of a Director of Studies and Senior Scientist. Working stations and clients include, but are not limited to Fraunhofer Institute, Helmholtz Center, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, University of St. Gallen (HSG), University of Fribourg, Agroscope, SBB, Open Grid Europe, Swissgrid, Stromnetze Berlin, IWB as well as a Society for Technology and Knowledge Transfer (GWT). She was member of the academic advisory team of World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland), published scientific as well as popular articles and won several prizes.
Her mother tongue is German but she is fluent in English and has begun learning Italian as well.
