Karl Werder is an Associate Professor in the Section Digital Business Innovation of the IT University of Copenhagen, DK, where he is Co-head of the Master's Programme in Digital Innovation & Management. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Cologne Institute for Information Systems of the University of Cologne, DE, and a senior researcher and pilot leader at paluno, the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, DE. Karl received his doctoral degree in Information Systems from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE. He graduated with a master's degree in Business Informatics from Utrecht University, NL. He also holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, is a certified IT specialist, and has professional experience working at IBM and Procter & Gamble.

Karl serves as an associate editor at the Communications of the Association for Information Systems and Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal, and as an editorial review board member for the Decision Sciences Journal. He was a visiting scholar at Laval University, CA in 2023 and at Georgia State University, US in 2021 and 2019. He served as an associate editor at several Information Systems conferences and helped organize the Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Business, Platforms, and Ecosystems: Fundamentals of Software Production Research in 2018. He has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for many leading research journals in information systems, software engineering, and management, as well as independent research-supporting agencies such as the US NSF and Rannís. Karl has also provided expert commentary to media outlets such as IEEE Spectrum and BLOG@CACM.