Peter Kotzian has been an academic councilor at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Accounting, since 2014. Previously, he studied social sciences at the University of Mannheim, where he received his doctorate in political science. After a research stay at the London School of Economics, he habilitated in political science at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests in business administration lie in experimental behavioral research, but also include topics of institutional comparison and the democratization of international governance through the involvement of civil society actors.

Within the DIID, research projects on the impact of digitalization on individual and collective decision-making processes in companies are in preparation, in particular on the use of business analytics and its impact on decision bias.