ICEM team aims at working with best academics, practitioners and industry leaders nationally and internationally to develop tailor made and transformative applied research.
Dr Alessandro Inversini
Director
Alessandro Inversini is Associate Professor in Marketing and Director of the Institute of Customer Experience Management at the EHL Group. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano), Alessandro was appointed in managerial positions both at university level and at business level in the Ticino region. Alessandro joined Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in 2019 from Henley Business School (University of Reading) where he was Subject Area Leader for Strategic Marketing for Henley MBA. Before this experience, he was working at Bournemouth University, School of Tourism as Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communication. To date Alessandro published more than 80 peer reviewed both in academic journals and conferences. He also served as invited editor for several academic journals, and international conferences; he also served in board of director of IFITT (International Federation of IT in Travel and Tourism).
Katarzyna Wrzesinska is a Project Coordinator at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. She is experienced in online marketing – she worked for an interactive agency in Poland before joining EHL. Katarzyna is a successful project manager with experience in several project areas including start-up management. Uniquely, she spent several years working for a major detective agency where she moved from operations to a senior Board of Directors position.
Katarzyna is a graduate of an MBA programme in Madrid and Warsaw and completed a post-graduate programme in IT project management. She is a passionate athlete with a life-long amateur and profesional career in handball and beach handball. She has recently started an amateur beach handball club in Lausanne. She speaks fluent English, French, Spanish and Polish.
Areas of expertise:
Customer Experience
Digital Marketing
Project Management
Dr. Andreea Antonescu
Research Associate PhD in Tourism Studies, University of Lausanne
Dr. Antonescu is Research Associate at the Institute of Customer Experience Management within EHL Group and in charge of research activities for the Lab X3. As a lifelong migrant for education with 15 years of academic experience across 4 countries (RO, FR, CH, CN), she gained expertise in tourism studies and research methodology. Before joining EHL, Dr. Antonescu worked as a postdoc researcher at Ningbo University (China) and as research fellow and PhD student at University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Besides academia, she also worked in international settings such as the International Labour Office (UN, Geneva) and in consulting as research analyst specialized in designing tourism activities in mountain resorts (Grenoble, France). Her research interests shifted a few times during her career – from human geography, public services and globalisation of tourism to customer experience. Initially trained as a geographer, Andreea has developed the ability to transfer knowledge from other social sciences (history, sociology and psychology) and has applied this interdisciplinary approach to her research. Her studies and research had been supported by public institutions in Switzerland, China, France and Romania and her work has been published in French and English in prestigious international journals. In her free time, she enjoys travelling all over the world, connecting with friends, immersing in other cultures and languages, and reading psychology, nutrition, and personal transformation.
Areas of expertise:
Customer experience: research assessment model design, company culture, service experience, in situ observation and analysis, experience design and scenario
Tourism Studies: tourism history, globalisation of tourism, tourist destinations, mapping, spatial and temporal dimensions
Research design and methodology: quantitative (global database) and qualitative methods
Ms Sarah De Vantéry
Research Assistant
“Sarah de Vantéry is a Research Assistant at Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. Passionate about languages and cultures, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Slavic Studies and in English from the Université de Lausanne. Wishing to have the opportunity to put her language skills to use in her professional career, she completed her studies with a Master’s degree in International Tourism obtained from the Università della Svizzera italiana. Sarah has previously worked in the tourism and communication fields, both in Ticino and in Valais.”
