Biography

I am a Postdoc at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), focusing on computational social science. In my research, I investigate the impact of AI, platforms, and connectivity on information ecosystems, news media, and democracy.

I did my PhD at the Strategic Organization Design (SOD), group, supervised by Professor Oliver Baumann, I focused on complex dynamics underpinning the impacts of platforms and generative AI on collaboration dynamics and news product diversity in the Danish news industry, drawing on natural language processing, network analysis and econometrics.

Conferences

• Digital Democracy Workshop 2025 Zurich: Paper presentation
• AoM Annual Meeting 2025 Copenhagen: Paper session presentation
• SMS Annual Conference 2024 Istanbul: Parallel session presentation
• AoM Annual Meeting 2024 Chicago: Parallel session presentation
• IC2S2 2023 Copenhagen: Plenary talk + poster presentation
• DRUID 2023 Lisbon: Parallel session presentation
• Democracy & Digital Citizenship Conference Series 2022 Roskilde: Work-in-progress presentation
• ICA 2022 Paris

Networks

• Nordic Network for the Science of Science

University Service

• SOD Research Seminar Series: Organizer
• SDU Faculty of Business and Social Science PhD Committee: Elected PhD student representative (2024-2025)

I am teaching master's students in the Innovation and Business Development profile in Economics and Business Administration at SDU.

In the course Business Development, I instruct the following sessions:

• Platform Strategies as Entrepreneurial Strategies
• Strategic Renewal and Business Model Innovation
• Value Chain Strategy and the Innovation Ecosystem
• Niche Strategies for New Businesses
• Intrapreneurship and Corporate Strategy
• Confronting Bigger, Established Rivals

• emilbj@sam.sdu.dk
• +45 30 25 37 68
• Department of Business and Management, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M