Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber joined the University Duisburg-Essen as Full Professor at the Chair for Managerial Accounting and Sustainability as of September 1, 2025. Moreover, she is Adjunct Faculty Member at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA) and Affiliated Professor at Groningen University (The Netherlands). Before joining the University Duisburg-Essen, she served as Assistant and later Associate Professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and as Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg (Germany). She is a regular Visiting Researcher at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA), and she was a Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland, USA). She received her Ph.D. at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). Through her work as a project manager for a European Regional Development Fund Project, she also gained valuable management experience in practice. Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber’s research focus is on management controls and in particular on how budgeting, performance measurement, and management control systems are transformed by developments like sustainability, AI, and increasing individualization. Her research has been published in leading, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Organizational Research Methods, British Accounting Review, and Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, as well as in practice-oriented publications. Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber is reviewer at leading journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and British Accounting Review. She is currently co-editing the Handbook on Management Control in a Transforming Society. She is also reviewer for third-party funded projects, and has secured herself meaningful third-funded projects from the Foundation for Auditing Research.