Kerstin Alfes is a Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Management at ESCP Business School, Berlin campus.

Kerstin’s research interests include strategic human resource management, neurodiversity, employee engagement, and new ways of working. She has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and International Journal of Management Reviews. She has raised research funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and industry. Her current research projects focus on the work experiences of employees with ADHD, freelancing, and human resource management practices in emergency service organisations (police, firefighters, paramedics).

Kerstin teaches courses on leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and human resource management at graduate, post-graduate, and executive levels in various programs at ESCP Business School. She also consults practitioners on developing and implementing engagement and DEI strategies and serves as a keynote speaker at practitioner conferences and seminars.

Before joining ESCP Business School, Kerstin was a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London and an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands). Kerstin completed her Habilitation (2014) and her Dr. rer. oec. (PhD equivalent, 2008) at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and received her Master’s Degree (Diplom-Kauffrau) from the University of Mannheim (Germany) in 2004.