Pia Geisemann, MA

Pia Geisemann joined the Chair for Organization Studies as a research associate in October 2023. She accomplished a bachelor's degree in Intercultural Business Studies from Philipps-Universität Marburg. During her studies, she worked as a tutor of statistics and spent one semester as an ERASMUS student at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain. After her bachelor’s degree, she completed a master's degree in International Business and Sustainability (MIBAS) at the University of Hamburg with a scientific interest in sustainable business development and entrepreneurship, and worked for the startup Matsmart-Motatos based in Stockholm. Currently, her research focuses on urgency perceptions and temporal conflicts in crises.

Peer-reviewed journal papers:

• Olawuyi, D. A., Gbadegesin, A. S., Ajayi, D. D., Oyedele, P., Geiger, D., Seidemann, I., Geisemann, P., Sansone, S., Nasir, F., Oloche, P. A., Salako, F., Agada, J. & Adaje, P. (2025): “Anticipatory Action in River Flooding Risk Management in Nigeria: An Assessment of Community‐Level Implementation.” Journal of Flood Risk Management, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70117
• Geisemann, P., Seidemann, I., Olawuyi, D. & Geiger, D. (2025): “Early Warnings, No Actions: A Practice Perspective on Barriers to Anticipatory Action Approaches.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.70083
• Geisemann, P. & Geiger, D. (2024): “Crisis? What Crisis? The Contestation of Urgency in Creeping Crises.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.70004

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings and presentations:

• Geisemann, P.: “A turn of time in crisis research: Towards a pluritemporal and dynamic understanding of time in crises,” 41st EGOS Colloquium, Athens 2025
• Geisemann, P. / Geiger, D.: “Crisis? What Crisis? The Contestation of Urgency in Creeping Crisis”, Young Scholars’ Conference Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice, Hamburg, 2025
• Geisemann, P. / Geiger, D.: “Coming from different places: The experience of urgency in multi-actor crisis settings,” 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milan 2024

Winter semester 2025/26

• Grundkurs Organisation, BA
• Organisational Development and Change, MSc

Summer semester 2025 

• Qualitative Methods of Empirical Research, MSc
• Grundkurs Organisation, BA

Winter semester 2024/25

• Introduction into Philosophy of Science, MSc

Summer semester 2024

• Grundkurs Organisation, BA
• Qualitative Methods of Empirical Research, MSc

Winter semester 2023/24

• Grundkurs Organisation, BA
• Organisational Development and Change, MSc