He holds a MSc and PhD in Information Systems from HEC Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. His PhD thesis (2007) consists on designing a multi-actor multi-criteria approach to assess possible disruptions in the mobile payment market. This research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Yves Pigneur and was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the NCCR-MICS project.

Research

His research interests are related to electronic/mobile business, IT strategy, decision support systems, and technology forecasting. He has authored more than 20 academic papers that have been published in international academic journals and conference proceedings.

In September 2009, Jan was appointed Special Isssue Editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ). In addition, at the beginning of 2010, he joined the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research (JITCAR).

Since September 2009, he has been co-directing the ESSEC Media & Entertainment Chair with Serge Hayat. His role is to lead the academic research projects of the Chair. The general purpose of this Chair is to train future high-potential managers for the media sector and to develop research for analyzing the media sector fundamentals. The industrial partners of the Chair are Société Générale, Orange, and Les Echos.

As part of his research activities, Jan has been several times visiting scholar at the Department of Information Technology Management, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. In March 2007, he was invited as a visiting research professor at the School of Business Administration of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.

Teaching

At ESSEC, Jan teaches courses related to IS/IT and ebusiness in several graduate programs (MSc, MBA, Advanced Masters, PhD). In September 2008 and 2009, he was invited to guest lecture at the University of Mannheim in Germany.