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Creativity and AI

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Dr. Jennifer Haase
Research Group Lead
Weizenbaum Institute
Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Postdoctoral Researcher
Humboldt University of Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin


Jennifer Haase

Bio

Dr. Jennifer Haase is a researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute and the Humboldt University, Computer Science Department, where her work focuses on the intersection of Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and Automation. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Potsdam, with a thesis on Creative Intensive Processes, investigating how creative work can be modeled and enhanced in the context of technology driven team-work. She also holds an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Psychology from Lund University, Sweden, and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, respectively.

Dr. Haase’s research is centered on how AI and automation influence human creativity, examining both the possibilities for enhancing creative processes and the potential challenges these technologies pose. Her work moves beyond traditional business processes to focus on the broader impact of digital tools and automation on creative knowledge work. She has led key projects exploring the creative potential of AI, AI-human collaboration, and creativity-enhancing strategies, securing substantial research funding in these areas. In addition to her research, Dr. Haase is a lecturer at the Humboldt University and the University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin, where she teaches on the Psychology of Creativity, bringing a psychological perspective to understanding and fostering creativity in digital work environments. She regularly engages in public discussions on how to foster creative skills and the future of creativity in an AI-driven world, having been featured in panel discussions, podcasts, and seminars on AI’s role in creative processes.

Education

  • BA in Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, 2013
  • MA in Psychology, Lund University, Sweden, 2015
  • Ph.D. in Information Systems, Potsdam University, Germany, 2023
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University, Computer Science Department, 2023-
  • Research Associate, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, 2023-

Honors & Awards

  • Best Associate Editor award at the ECIS 2024 conference, 2024
  • The 100 most important minds in Berlin science, 2023

Key Roles (select)

  • Weizenbaum-Institute Berlin
    Research Associate, 10/2022 - [link]
  • Humboldt University Berlin
    Research Associate, 10/2022 - [link]
  • Weizenbaum-Institute Berlin
    Member of the AI Working Group, 05/2025 -
  • Weizenbaum-Institute Berlin
    Ombudsperson, 07/2023 - [link]
  • RIKEN Institute
    Visiting Researcher, 07/2024 [link]
  • University of Liechtenstein
    Visiting Researcher, 07/2022 [link]
  • Annual Routine Dynamics Workshop
    Workshop organizer, 03/2023 [link]
  • Interdisciplinary Research - from an individual perspective - AMCIS 2023 Workshop
    Workshop organizer, 08/2023 [link]

Publications

  1. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Structured Creativity Methods for Multi-Agent LLMs: Brainwriting Outperforms Disney and Double Diamond on LLM-Judged Originality. ICML 2026 Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creativity. [PDF]
  2. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). The Missing Drive: Functional Analogs of Intrinsic Motivation in Large Language Models for Creative Tasks. ICML 2026 Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creativity. [PDF]
  3. Hanel, P. H. P., de Holanda Coelho, G. L., and Haase, J. (2026). From Influencers to Lecturers: Understanding Public Attitudes toward Digital vs. Traditional Jobs. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 22, 101046. [PDF] [doi]
  4. Gonnermann-Müller, J., Haase, J., Leins, N., Kosch, T., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Maintaining Stable Personas? Examining Temporal Stability in LLM-Based Human Simulation. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1–6. [PDF] [doi]
  5. Haase, J., Gonnermann-Müller, J., Hanel, P. H. P., Leins, N., Kosch, T., Mendling, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). It’s Not Just the Prompt: Model Choice Dominates LLM Creative Output. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). [PDF] [doi]
  6. Gonnermann-Müller, J., Haase, J., Leins, N., Igel, M., Fackeldey, K., and Pokutta, S. (2026). FACET: Multi-Agent AI Supporting Teachers in Scaling Differentiated Learning for Diverse Students. arXiv:2601.22788. [arXiv] [doi]
  7. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). The Hidden Cost of Tokenization: Why (Most) Non-English Speakers Pay More for Less. [arXiv] [doi]
  8. Haase, J., Gonnermann-Müller, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Building Socially Grounded Multi-Agent LLM Systems Requires the Transition from Static LLM Prompting to Autonomous Multi-Agent Ecosystems. [arXiv] [doi]
  9. Haase, J., Gonnermann-Müller, J., Hanel, P. H. P., Leins, N., Kosch, T., Mendling, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Within-Model vs Between-Prompt Variability in Large Language Models for Creative Tasks. arXiv:2601.21339. [arXiv] [doi]
  10. Gonnermann-Müller, J., Haase, J., Leins, N., Kosch, T., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Stable Personas: Dual-Assessment of Temporal Stability in LLM-Based Human Simulation. Preprint. [arXiv] [doi]
  11. Haase, J., Klessascheck, F., Mendling, J., and Pokutta, S. (2026). Sustainability via LLM Right-sizing. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. [arXiv]
  12. Haase, J., Butollo, F., Hoppe, K.-M., Katzinski, A.-K., and Krüger, A. K. (2026). ChatGPT in Knowledge-Intensive Work: Patterns of Adoption, Perceived Usefulness, and Human-AI Collaboration Across Three Domains. International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD), 1–17. [PDF] [doi]
  13. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2025). Human–AI Co–Creativity: Exploring Synergies across Levels of Creative Collaboration. In Generative Artificial Intelligence and Creativity (pp. 205–221). Academic Press. [PDF] [doi]
  14. Haase, J., Hanel, P. H. P., and Pokutta, S. (2025). Has the Creativity of Large-Language Models peaked? An analysis of inter-and intra-LLM variability. Journal of Creativity, 35(3), 100113. [arXiv] [doi]
  15. Gonnermann-Müller, J., Haase, J., Fackeldey, K., and Pokutta, S. (2025). FACET: Teacher-Centred LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems—Towards Personalized Educational Worksheets. [arXiv] [doi]
  16. Vogelgsang, L., Eicke, A.-K., and Haase, J. (2025). AI and the Dynamic Interplay of Exploration and Exploitation: Evidence from the Game of Chess. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025, 20998. [PDF] [doi]
  17. Haase, J., and Pokutta, S. (2025). Beyond Static Responses: Multi-Agent LLM Systems as a New Paradigm for Social Science Research. [arXiv] [doi]
  18. Butollo, F., Haase, J., Katzinski, A.-K., and Krüger, A. K. (2025). Uncertain futures of work: The perception of generative AI in knowledge professions. Uncertain Journeys into Digital Futures. [PDF] [doi]
  19. Haase, J. (2025). Augmenting Coaching with GenAI: Insights into Use, Effectiveness, and Future Potential. Submitted. [arXiv] [doi]
  20. Haase, J. (2025). Erweiterung des Coachings durch Generative KI: Einblicke in Nutzung, Effektivität und Zukunftspotenziale [Enhancing Coaching through Generative AI: Insights into Usage, Effectiveness and Future Potential]. Organisationsberatung, Supervision, Coaching, 1–17. [PDF] [doi]
  21. Haase, J., Hanel, P. H. P., and Pokutta, S. (2025). S-DAT: A Multilingual, GenAI-Driven Framework for Automated Divergent Thinking Assessment. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 1194–1205. [PDF] [doi]
  22. Butollo, F., Haase, J., Katzinski, A.-K., and Krüger, A. K. (2025). Generative AI and Changes to Knowledge Work. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 1–30. [PDF] [doi]
  23. Gonnermann-Müller, J., Sahling, K., and Haase, J. (2025). Let’s Be Realistic: AI-Recommender Use in a Complex Management Setting. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). [PDF]
  24. Vladova, G., Haase, J., and Friesike, S. (2024). Why, with whom, and how to conduct interdisciplinary research? A review from a researcher’s perspective. Science and Public Policy. [PDF] [doi]
  25. Klessascheck, F., Bein, L., Haase, J., and Pufahl, L. (2024). A Critical Investigation of Rationalities in Automation with BPM. 26th International Conference on Business Informatics. [PDF] [doi]
  26. Groß, S., Grisold, T., Mendling, J., and Haase, J. (2024). Idea generation in exploitative and explorative business process redesign techniques. Information Systems and e-Business Management. [PDF] [doi]
  27. Haase, J., Kremser, W., Leopold, H., Mendling, J., Onnasch, L., and Plattfaut, R. (2024). Interdisciplinary Directions for Researching the Effects of Robotic Process Automation and Large Language Models on Business Processes. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 54(1). [PDF]
  28. Haase, J., and Hanel, P. H. P. (2024). Spillover Effects in Creative Thinking: The Impact of Gaming and Mathematics on Creativity and Emotions. Creativity Research Journal, 4, 1–13. [PDF] [doi]
  29. Haase, J., and Hanel, P. H. P. (2023). Artificial muses: Generative artificial intelligence chatbots have risen to human-level creativity. Journal of Creativity, 33(3), 1–7. [PDF] [doi]
  30. Haase, J., Djurica, D., and Mendling, J. (2023, August). The Art of Inspiring Creativity: Exploring the Unique Impact of AI-generated Images. AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. [PDF]
  31. Cromwell, J. R., Haase, J., and Vladova, G. (2023). The creative thinking profile: Predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 208. [PDF] [doi]
  32. Gronau, N., Kluge, A., Haase, J., and Thim, C. (2023). Experiential Learning Factories: Bridging the Gap between Lab and Field Experiments [SSRN Scholarly Paper]. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Learning Factories (CLF 2023). [PDF] [doi]
  33. Cromwell, J. R., Harvey, J.-F., Haase, J., and Gardner, H. K. (2023). Discovering Where ChatGPT Can Create Value for Your Company. Harvard Business Review. [PDF]
  34. Vu, H., Haase, J., Leopold, H., and Mendling, J. (2023). Towards a Theory on Process Automation Effects. In C. Di Francescomarino, A. Burattin, C. Janiesch, and S. Sadiq (Eds.), Business Process Management Forum (pp. 285–301). Springer Nature Switzerland. [PDF] [doi]
  35. Thim, C., Gronau, N., Haase, J., Grum, M., Schüffler, A., Roling, W., and Kluge, A. (2023). Modeling Change in Business Processes. In B. Shishkov (Ed.), Business Modeling and Software Design (pp. 3–17). Springer Nature Switzerland. [PDF] [doi]
  36. Haase, J., Hanel, P. H. P., and Gronau, N. (2023). Creativity enhancement methods for adults: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. [PDF] [doi]
  37. Haase, J. (2023). Creative intensive processes: an approach to model creative work [PhD thesis]. Universität Potsdam. [PDF]
  38. Vladova, G., Haase, J., and Stricker, D. (2022). Acceptance in Human-Robot Interaction: User’s Personality and the Anthropomorphic Design of the Robot as Influencing Factors. PACIS 2022 Proceedings. [PDF]
  39. Cromwell, J., Haase, J., and Vladova, G. (2022). The Creative Thinking Profile: Measuring Internal Preferences for Multiple Creative Thinking Styles. Academy of Management Proceedings, 1. [PDF] [doi]
  40. Rüdian, S., Haase, J., and Pinkwart, N. (2022). Predicting creativity in online courses. 2022 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 164–168. [PDF]
  41. Haase, J., and Hanel, P. H. P. (2022). Priming creativity: Doing math reduces creativity and happiness whereas playing short online games enhance them. Frontiers in Education, 1–14. [PDF]
  42. Haase, J., Vladova, G., and Bender, B. (2022). Dating on a different stage, but with the same habits - an analysis of offline vs. online dating behavior. Submitted. [arXiv] [doi]
  43. Rüdian, S., Haase, J., and Pinkwart, N. (2021). The relation of convergent thinking and trace data in an online course. DELFI 2021. [PDF]
  44. Haase, J., Thim, C., and Bender, B. (2021). Expanding Modeling Notations: Requirements for Creative Process Modeling. In A. Marrella and B. Weber (Eds.), Business Process Management Workshops (pp. 197–208). Springer International Publishing. [PDF] [doi]
  45. Haase, J., and Thim, C. (2020). An approach to model forgetting. AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems, 4(1), 1–12. [PDF] [doi]
  46. Haase, J. (2020). How games spoil creativity: a creative mindset priming study. ISPIM Conference Proceedings. [PDF]
  47. Haase, J., Matthiesen, J., Schueffler, A., and Kluge, A. (2020). Retentivity beats prior knowledge as predictor for the acquisition and adaptation of new production processes. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [PDF]
  48. Kluge, A., Schüffler, A. S., Thim, C., Haase, J., and Gronau, N. (2019). Investigating unlearning and forgetting in organizations. The Learning Organization, 26(5), 518–533. [PDF]
  49. Schüffler, A., Thim, C., Haase, J., Gronau, N., and Kluge, A. (2019). Willentliches Vergessen-Voraussetzung für Flexibilität und Veränderungsfähigkeit in einer sich permanent verändernden Welt [Intentional Forgetting – A Prerequisite for Flexibility and Adaptability in a Permanently Changing World]. Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift Für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO), 50(2), 197–209. [PDF]
  50. Haase, J., and Schüffler, A. (2019). Studying cue-dependent and intentional forgetting in organizations: a methodological approach. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. [PDF]
  51. Vladova, G., Haase, J., Rüdian, L. S., and Pinkwart, N. (2019). Educational Chatbot with Learning Avatar for Personalization. Twenty-Fifth Americas Conference on Information Systems. [PDF]
  52. Schüffler, A. S., Thim, C., Haase, J., Gronau, N., and Kluge, A. (2019). Information Processing in Work Environment 4.0 and the Beneficial Impact of Intentional Forgetting on Change Management. Zeitschrift Für Arbeits- Und Organisationspsychologie A&O. [PDF] [doi]
  53. Haase, J., Hoff, E. V., Hanel, P. H. P., and Innes-Ker, Å. (2018). A meta-analysis of the relation between creative self-efficacy and different creativity measurements. Creativity Research Journal, 30(1), 1–16. [PDF] [doi]
  54. Hanel, P. H. P., and Haase, J. (2017). Predictors of citation rate in psychology: inconclusive influence of effect and sample size. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1–11. [PDF]

Talks

  • 04/2026: (technical) “Creativity in the Age of AI”. Talk at Symposium AI and Creativity (Darmstadt, Germany).
  • 03/2026: (technical) “Creativity in the Age of AI”. Talk at BPM and Organizational Behavior Lecture (online).
  • 02/2026: (technical) “Creativity Beyond the Individual: How Agentic LLM Systems Transform the Study of Creative Processes”. Talk at Lingnan University Seminar Series (Hong Kong, China).
  • 02/2026: (technical) “Beyond Static Responses: Agentic LLM Systems as a New Paradigm for Social Science Research”. Talk at HKU Psychology Seminar Series (Hong Kong, China).
  • 11/2025: (technical) “Think Outside the Box? First Know What the Box Looks Like”. Talk at Workshop Series (Essen, Germany).
  • 11/2025: (technical) “Creativity in the Age of AI: Experiencing and Reflecting Human–AI Co-Creativity”. Talk at Workshop Series (Essen, Germany).
  • 10/2025: (technical) “S-DAT: A Multilingual, GenAI-Driven Framework for Automated Divergent Thinking”. Talk at AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (Madrid, Spain).
  • 09/2025: (technical) “Synthetic-DAT for Multilingual Creativity Assessment”. Talk at Marconi Institute for Creativity (Bolzano, Italy).
  • 06/2025: (general) “KI ist wie ein Exoskelett für das Denken - wie unterstützen uns Maschinen beim Leben und Arbeiten? [AI as an Exoskeleton for Thinking – How Machines Support Us in Life and Work]”. Talk at BASECAMP Trend2Go! (Berlin, Germany). [video]
  • 04/2025: (general) “KI im Unternehmen: Wo Maschinen unterstützen - und Menschen unverzichtbar bleiben [AI in Business: Where Machines Support – and Humans Remain Indispensable]”. Talk at Weizenbaum Expert Forum: GenAI and Process Intelligence (Berlin, Germany).
  • 03/2025: (general) “KI im Unternehmen: Wo Maschinen unterstützen - und Menschen unverzichtbar bleiben [AI in Business: Where Machines Support – and Humans Remain Indispensable]”. Talk at TRANSFORM25 (Berlin, Germany). [video]
  • 09/2024: (general) “Women in Process Mining Panel Discussion”. Keynote at Women in Process Mining Local Chapter Event (Berlin, Germany).
  • 08/2024: (technical) “Unlocking New Frontiers: The Synergy of Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence”. Talk at RIKEN AIP Seminar Series (Tokyo, Japan).
  • 12/2023: (general) “Zwischen Mensch und Maschine: Eine neue Ära der Kreativität [Between Human and Machine: A New Era of Creativity]”. Keynote at Danube University Krems Expert Insights (online).
  • 11/2023: (general) “Human virtuosity and AI booster for musical creativity”. Talk at Berlin Science Week Panel discussion (Berlin, Germany).
  • 09/2023: (general) “Wie kann eine Organisation kreativ und innovativ werden? Eine Einführung in die Theorie der Kreativität [How Can an Organization Become Creative and Innovative? An Introduction to Creativity Theory]”. Keynote at VRK Academy Symposium (Erfurt, Germany).
  • 09/2023: (technical) “Sparking Creativity: A workshop to promote ideation in research with ChatGPT”. Talk at GEO-X Summer Meeting 'Creativity in Science' (Berlin, Germany).
  • 09/2023: (technical) “Spillover effects in creative thinking: Exploring the impact of prior tasks on creative performance”. Talk at MIC Conference (Trieste, Italy).
  • 08/2023: (technical) “The art of inspiring creativity: Exploring the unique imact of AI-generated images”. Talk at SIG: Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Applications (Panama City, Panama).
  • 05/2023: (general) “Kreativität entfesseln: über die Zusammenarbeit von Künstlern und Organisationen [Unleashing Creativity: On the Collaboration between Artists and Organizations]”. Keynote at Hamburg Creative Society Evening (Hamburg, Germany).
  • 05/2023: (general) “Creative AI & Neuroscience - How to manipulate our brains & emotions”. Talk at WISE Festival Panel discussion (Berlin, Germany).
  • 04/2022: (technical) “On creative routines”. Talk at EGOS conference (Vienna, Austria).
  • 09/2021: (technical) “Expanding modeling notations: requirements for creative processes modeling”. Talk at BPM Conference (Rome, Italy).
  • 06/2020: (technical) “How games spoil creativity - a creative priming study”. Talk at ISPIM Conference (Berlin, Germany).
  • 03/2020: (technical) “Kreativität am Schreibtisch - die eigene Kreativität in der Wissenschaft einbringen [Creativity at Your Desk – Bringing Your Own Creativity into Science]”. Talk at WI Conference Workshop (Potsdam, Germany).
  • 01/2020: (technical) “Retentivity and prior knowledge on intentional forgetting”. Talk at ICIS Conference (Hawaii, USA).
  • 08/2019: (technical) “Educational chatbot with learning avatar for personalization”. Talk at AMCIS Conference (Cancun, Mexico).
  • 07/2019: (technical) “How can creativity be enhanced?”. Talk at Creativity Conference (Ashland, USA).

Teaching

  • SoSe/2025: AI and Creativity (Lecture), UDK Berlin
  • SoSe/2024: Psychology for Information Systems (Lecture), Humboldt University of Berlin
  • SoSe/2023: Psychology of Creativity (Seminar), UDK Berlin
  • SoSe/2022: Psychology of Creativity (Seminar), UDK Berlin
  • SoSe/2021: Psychology of Creativity (Seminar), UDK Berlin
  • SoSe/2020: Psychology of Creativity (Seminar), UDK Berlin
  • WiSe/2020: Business Process Management (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2021: Business Process Management (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2022: Business Process Management (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2022: Management in the Digital Age (in parts) (Lecture), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2020: Analysing business processes & designing IT systems (A&K) (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2021: Analysing business processes & designing IT systems (A&K) (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • SoSe/2021: Analysing business processes & designing IT systems (A&K) (Seminar), Potsdam University
  • WiSe/2022: Analysing business processes & designing IT systems (A&K) (Seminar), Potsdam University

Outreach