Lukas is a Ph.D. candidate (all but dissertation) in organizational behaviour at Queen’s School of Business, Canada.  He completed his B.A. (Hons.) at Queen’s University, his M.A. at McGill University, and his M.Sc. at Queen’s School of Business.  In July 2012, Lukas will be joining the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour.

Lukas’ research interests include trust repair, conflict management, and negotiation.  His research is published or forthcoming in Psychological Science, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research,  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and in Research on Managing Groups and Teams.  Lukas’ dissertation research is on the effects of interpersonal forgiveness in the wake of workplace trust violations.  It examines how the prosocial attitudes and behaviours of team members are shaped by the experience of interpersonal forgiveness.

Lukas has taught negotiation at Queen’s School of Business, and received honourable mentions for his teaching in the undergraduate student society’s annual faculty awards in two categories, ‘Best Professor’, and ‘Most Enjoyable Course’.  He is the author of a number of teaching cases, and has been awarded the Best Paper (Case Track) award at the annual meeting of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.  His teaching cases have been published in the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management and Leadership.

Lukas is the recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and has also held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship.