ABOUT ME
How can individuals and organisations make better decisions?
I am Johannes U. Siebert, Professor of Decision Sciences and Operations Management at MCI | The Entrepreneurial School® in Innsbruck and Privatdozent at the University of Bayreuth.
My work combines decision analysis, behavioural economics and data science to understand and improve decision-making, from individual choices to operational and strategic management decisions.
For me, research, education and application belong together: scientific insights should not only explain decision-making, but also help individuals and organisations put better decision-making into practice.
RESEARCH
Decisions under uncertainty
Turning uncertainty into better decisions
My research examines how individuals and organisations can make better decisions under uncertainty and conflicting objectives. A current focus lies at the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence and decision models: data, predictions and AI-generated information create value only when they are meaningfully embedded in transparent and responsible decision processes.
Decision Analysis · Value-Focused Thinking · Behavioural Operational Research · Data Science · Artificial Intelligence
FROM RESEARCH TO IMPACT
Education and consulting
Developing decision-making competence – and putting it into practice
A particular focus of my work is the development of decision-making competence. Together with partners, I develop and evaluate approaches that help people clarify objectives, generate better alternatives and make complex decisions in a structured way. Since 2020, I have also served on the Advisory Council of the international Alliance for Decision Education.
INITIATIVES
KLUGentscheiden! · KLUGstudieren! · MOOC ”Making smart decisions proactively” (in German, developed with Ralph L. Keeney, iMooX) · Entscheidungsnavi
Beyond education, I apply decision analysis to consequential decisions in organisations – from portfolio decisions in pharmaceutical research to infrastructure and energy decisions and public-policy decision support.
SELECTED PRACTICE PARTNERS
Bayer · Energie Baden-Württemberg · California Department of Transportation
ACADEMIC PROFILE
At a glance
Academic profile
My academic career has taken me from the University of Bayreuth to MCI in Innsbruck. My work has been published in international journals including Operations Research, the European Journal of Operational Research and Decision Analysis, and I hold editorial and professional roles in international societies in the decision sciences.
POSITIONS
EDUCATION
2015 · Habilitation in Behavioural Operations Research and Decision Analysis — University of Bayreuth
Mentors: Jörg Schlüchtermann, Klaus Schäfer, Ralph L. Keeney. External reviewers: Roman Słowiński, Detlof von Winterfeldt, Günter Fandel.
2009 · Dr. rer. pol. — Faculty of Law, Business Management and Economics, University of Bayreuth
Thesis: Modeling of interactions – conception of an innovative approach in multi-attribute utility theory
EDITORIAL BOARDS
since 2025 · European Journal of Operational Research
since 2024 · Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
since 2019 · Decision Analysis (INFORMS)
PROFESSIONAL ROLES
2025–2027 · Board Member — INFORMS Section on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
2024–2028 · Executive Committee — International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
since 2022 · Head of the DA Video Committee — Decision Analysis Society (INFORMS)
since 2020 · Advisory Council — Alliance for Decision Education
since 2017 · Inaugural Member of the Coordinating Board — EURO Working Group on Behavioural Operational Research
SELECTED AWARDS
PROFILES