Nicola Breugst holds the Professorship of Entrepreneurial Behavior at Technical University of Munich since March 2012. She has a PhD in entrepreneurship and a university degree in psychology. She worked at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and the National University of Singapore. Nicola's research focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship. More specifically, she addresses questions of entrepreneurial affect, entrepreneurial motivation, and the collaboration in startup teams. Her papers have been published in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. Nicola is also a field editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and is member of the editorial review board of several other entrepreneurship journals.

Nicola's fascination for the people side of entrepreneurship also inspires her teaching which aims at developing the students’ entrepreneurial and analytical thinking. She teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs at TUM offering different formats from large-group lectures and research-focused seminars to hands-on workshops. She has received several awards for her teaching activities.