Christian von Schudnat is a PhD student at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (UPV). He completed his international Master in Management in 2008. Following his M.Sc. degree, he commenced his career. He built up his professional experience in healthcare at Johnson & Johnson Medical, where he works in a leading management position at Ethicon EMEA. In 2019, Christian also completed a two-year Leadership, Change Management and Supply Chain in Healthcare program at the IOM Steinbeis-Business-School in Berlin, Germany. His first publications in marketing controlling and digitalization in healthcare as part of his PhD were released in 2021.