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Christian Hampel is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. His research operates at the intersection of entrepreneurship and organization theory, with a specific focus on how new ventures manage social evaluations such as stigma, legitimacy, identification, and hype. He particularly studies these dynamics in mission-driven ventures, especially within the fintech space for social innovation. Hampel has received an ESRC grant to study social tech ventures, and his research has been published in prestigious outlets including the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Business Venturing. His dissertation was a finalist for the 2017 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award. He also serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal. In 2020, he was an Associate Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation and previously was a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University's Kellogg School in 2015. In academia, he has experience in strategy consulting and currently teaches modules in entrepreneurship and social innovation as well as qualitative methods to master's and MBA students. He received the 'Excellence Award in Innovation Teaching' from Imperial Business School in 2023 and has been recognized by Poets&Quants as one of the '40 Under 40 MBA Professors' for 2025.
Imperial College London • London, GB
Teaching modules in entrepreneurship, social innovation, and qualitative methods while conducting research on social evaluations in ventures.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.