Mümin Ahmedoğlu
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Business Decisions and Analytics, University of Vienna
Education
Ph.D. in Business Decisions and Analytics
University of Vienna · Vienna, Austria · Oct 2025–present
Dissertation: how Europe’s rearmament is changing the way allies pay for and buy defense, and what this means for competition, innovation, firms, and burden sharing
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Oliver Fabel and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Dmitriy Knyazev
Doctoral coursework
Contract Theory · Game Theory · Decision Sciences · Econometrics for Policy Analysis · Industrial Organization · Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty · Incentives and Strategic Behavior · Philosophy and Economics · Advanced Topics in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
M.Sc. Management and Technology
Technical University of Munich (TUM) · Munich, Germany · Mar 2023–Aug 2025
My major is Economics, Policy, and Innovation, with a technology focus on Computer Engineering.
Thesis topic: EU Defense Discourse and Institutional Dynamics: A Computational Analysis of European Commission and European Parliament Rhetoric and Their Drivers (2000–2024)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hanna Hottenrott · Advisor: Dr. David Angenendt
Research papers written during the program
- Politics of Innovation & Technology: Determinants of Defense Technology Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Economic, Geopolitical, and Policy Factors Across Leading and Emerging Nations
- Economics of Innovation: Military Innovation vs. Operations: How Arms Trade, Technological Capacity, and Economic Strength Shape PESCO Participation
- Innovation, Society, and Public Policy: Balancing Act: Innovation, Society, and Defense Policy – A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and Germany
- Technology Governance and the Regulatory State: Regulatory Challenges of Eurodrone Under PESCO and EU Strategic Autonomy: A Techno-Securitization Perspective
- Economic and Political Spaces of Innovation: Defense Innovation and Strategic Autonomy in Czechia: Socio-Technical Imaginaries and Security Narratives
- Current Issues in Technology Management: Unlocking Dual-Use Potential: The Case for Military Drone Adaptation in Civilian Sectors
Selected coursework
Innovation, technology, and strategy: Innovation and Technology Management in Practice · Value-based Business Strategy & Innovation · Applied Strategy and Organization · Economic and Political Spaces of Innovation · Economics of Innovation · Politics of Innovation and Technology · Innovation, Society, and Public Policy
Governance, policy, and regulation: Technology Governance and the Regulatory State · Introduction to Science and Technology Policy · Advanced Topics in Comparative and International Political Economy
Data, research, and quantitative methods: Empirical Research in Management and Economics · Quantitative Research Proposals: Developing an Empirical Research Project · Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis · Applied Statistics and Econometrics · Risk Theory and Modeling
Programming and visualization: Data Analysis and Visualization in R · Introduction to Programming
B.Sc. Industrial Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU) · Ankara, Türkiye · Sep 2014–Sep 2022
I specialized in systems design and developed my bachelor’s thesis, with Şişecam, on improving sales processes through an offline case decision support system design. Systems design project: DHL Supply Chain: Vehicle Control and Order Quantity Estimation Decision Support System.
Selected coursework
Introduction to Probability · Introduction to Statistics · Statistical Linear Models · Introduction to Data Mining · Linear Programming · Network Flows and Integer Programming · Stochastic Models in Operations Research · Simulation · Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis · Systems Thinking · Decision Analysis · Principles of Economics I–II · Engineering Economy · Financial Engineering · Scientific Computing for Industrial Engineering
Research experience
Doctoral Researcher, Economics of Defense Procurement
University of Vienna, Department of Business Decisions and Analytics · Vienna, Austria · Oct 2025–present
I research the economics of defense procurement and alliance burden sharing: how Europe’s post-2022 rearmament is changing competition and supplier selection in defense procurement, and how NATO’s spending targets shape what allies spend and report. I also teach Human Resource Management in the Bachelor program in Business Administration.
Graduate Research Assistant, SYNCPOL (ERC Advanced Grant)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) · Munich, Germany · Apr 2025–Oct 2025
I worked on the ERC-funded project SYNCPOL: Synchronized Politics, where I modeled how time-related political language—such as urgency, duration, and foresight—shapes EU policy coordination and power dynamics in migration and public health. My tasks included semantic scaling of political speeches across EU institutions using Python, Sentence-BERT, dynamic embeddings, and PCA-based ideological positioning.
Publications
- (2026). Turning legacy into alliance relevance: Czechia’s defense-industrial imaginary and the politics of selective sovereignty. New Perspectives. Online first. doi:10.1177/2336825X261466888
Working papers
- (2026). Who Securitizes European Defense? Institutional Differentiation in EU Security Discourse, 2000–2024. Under review at European Security.
- (2026). Buying Under Fire: How the 2022 Rearmament Shock Reshaped Competition in European Defense Procurement. Under review at Defence and Peace Economics.
- (2026). Pools of European structural integration: framing nations and the re-centring of defence pooling after 2022. Draft.
- (2025). Comparative National Strategies in Military Trainer Jet Development: The Czech Aero L-39NG and Turkish TAI Hürjet in the Global Defense Economy.
Work in progress
- Paying to the Line: Real and Reported Compliance with NATO’s Two-Percent Guideline. Second dissertation paper, in preparation.
Presentations
- Buying Under Fire: How the 2022 Rearmament Shock Reshaped Competition and Supplier Selection in European Defense Procurement. 29th International Conference on Economics and Security (ICES 2026), University of Information Technology and Management (UITM), Rzeszów, Poland, June 2026.
- Buying Under Fire: How the 2022 Rearmament Shock Reshaped Competition and Supplier Selection in European Defense Procurement. Workshop on European Defence and Defence Economics, CENTREPEACE, Chaire Economie de défense – IHEDN, Université de Bordeaux, and the Defence & Security Economics Workshop, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia, June 2026.
- Economic and Strategic Drivers of European Defense Discourse: A Text-as-Data and Dynamic Econometric Analysis (2000–2024). 28th International Conference on Economics and Security (ICES 2025), Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 2025.
- Determinants of Defence Technology Innovation: A Comparative Analysis of Economic, Geopolitical, and Policy Factors Across Leading and Emerging Nations. Military Innovation Studies Summit 2024, Swedish Defence University, Landqvist, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2024.
Teaching
Human Resource Management (BA)
Lecturer · University of Vienna · Winter 2026/27
Bachelor in Business Administration · Course 040608 · 4 ECTS · English
Professional experience
P&O Transformation Strategy Working Student
Siemens · Munich, Germany · Apr 2025–Oct 2025
I contributed to strategic people and organization transformation projects by developing data-driven concepts aligned with Siemens’ People Strategy for Germany. I supported data strategy implementation by analyzing people-related datasets, creating dashboards and reports, and promoting data-informed solutions for the future of work.
Technology Infrastructure Graduate Working Student
TUM Venture Labs · Munich, Germany · Oct 2024–Feb 2025
I aligned technology infrastructure in Munich with startups’ needs, automated and optimized the startup journey with TUM Venture Labs, and facilitated connections between startups and resources.
Strategy, Digitalization & Sustainability Working Student
Siemens Advanta Consulting · Munich, Germany · Mar 2024–Sep 2024
I collaborated on sustainability-driven strategic initiatives and supported regional digitalization projects.
IT Management & Enterprise Processes Working Student
TUM School of Management · Munich, Germany · Oct 2023–Sep 2024
I was involved in IT process design and integration, process optimization, and agile project management.
Group IT Strategy & Management Working Student
Allianz SE · Munich, Germany · Jul 2023–Mar 2024
I managed the Enterprise Architecture Repository and led CIO communications and IT transformation initiatives.
Associate Project Manager (Project Engineer)
STM · Ankara, Türkiye · Mar 2021–May 2023
I managed technical projects related to tactical mini UAV systems and R&D projects for defense and military use, including KARGU, BOYGA, ALPAGU, and TOGAN.
R&D Undergraduate Project Engineer
Baykar Technologies · Istanbul, Türkiye · Jul 2020–Mar 2021
I was a member of the Research and Development Project Management Office for the Bayraktar TB2 and AKINCI tactical UAV systems, working on engineering change management, configuration management, systems design, systems engineering, and military standards.
Skills
- Econometrics & quantitative analysis
- Panel data analysis, causal inference, forecasting, regression modeling; econometrics for policy and defense procurement studies
- Theoretical & mathematical modeling
- Contract theory, game theory, optimization, decision analysis; linear and non-linear models, network modeling, simulation
- Programming & data science
- Python (NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn); R (econometrics, data visualization, statistical analysis); Java (object-oriented programming); NLP and text-as-data (Sentence-BERT, topic modeling, PCA-based semantic scaling)
- Research & analytical tools
- GAMS, RStudio, Stata, Minitab, JASP, Tableau, DAX, VBA; data visualization, statistical computing, and reproducible research
- Project & academic management
- Research design, project coordination, and policy analysis; cross-functional collaboration and academic communication; JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, Notion
Languages
Turkish (native) · English (fluent) · Arabic (fluent) · German (intermediate, B1)