A visit at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)

19.02.2026 Matthias Wenzel visited the Business School at SDU for a PhD defense and a guest lecture.

Matthias Wenzel served on the thesis committee at Aarhus University Business School in Herning, Denmark, where Thuvarakai Kandasamy successfully defended her doctoral thesis on crisis and resilience. We congratulate Dr. Kandasamy on this achievement and thank our colleagues in Herning for the stimulating academic exchange.

Following the defense, Matthias joined a panel at the business school on “Future-making and responsibility in times of uncertainty,” alongside Patricia Wolf (SDU), Anne Gammelgaard Ballantyne (AAU), and Justine Grønbæk Pors (CBS).

A fruitful visit

While there, Matthias also delivered a guest lecture to master’s students at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense on “Foresight and Future-making.” Drawing on current scholarship and practice, he introduced core concepts and tools for future-making that broaden the lens for understanding ways of engaging wit the future. The session included examples from the military context.

In a subsequent research seminar, Matthias discussed an ongoing project on future-making in the German armed forces. The conversation focused on how military bureaucracies strategize for grand challenges facing temporal uncertainty.