Katherina Kuschel works as Director of Research Funding at CENTRUM Graduate Business School and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. As an Associate Researcher, she explores the experience of women entrepreneurs in technology ventures in Latin America. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of a PUCP-funded project in Peru, a DAAD/KIT-funded project in Germany examining international acceleration and soft-landing programs, and co-investigator of an applied research project granted by ANDE/IDRC to promote women’s participation in the clean energy sector. In 2026, Kuschel is part of the editorial team for the Emerald book series on Innovation in Human Centered Sustainability. In 2026, we will be producing the volume called “Human Centered Sustainability in the AI Age. Transforming Workplaces: Enhancing Wellbeing, Performance and Productivity”. In 2019, she co-edited a Routledge book on wellbeing and women entrepreneurs, and a special issue at the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal on Women Entrepreneurship within STEM. Awarded as VIWA 2025 Outstanding Researcher on Women’s Entrepreneurship. She developed the research line of women’s innovation and entrepreneurship from an ecosystem perspective at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile, 2018-2019). Kuschel is a team player. She participated in a comprehensive international study on the role of women entrepreneurs in the development of regional innovation ecosystems at Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Laurier (Canada, 2017). She was a Visiting Researcher at University of Siegen (Germany, 2016), where she led an international collaborative research project on entrepreneurial failure. She was an Assistant Professor of Management at the School of Economics and Business, Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile, 2012-2015). Kuschel holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain, 2011).