Prof. Marjaana Gunkel was born in Finland but has completed her academic education in Germany. She received her PhD from the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. In her doctoral dissertation she examined country differences in employee motivation. Marjaana Gunkel has held professorships in International Human Resource Management as well as in Management and Organization at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg as well as the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in Germany respectively. Since 2015 she is a professor of Organization and Human Resource Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She is the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management.  Marjaana Gunkel’s research is focused on International Human Resource Management, especially on examining international differences in HR practices as well as employee behavior. She has published in the leading journals in this area including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.