About – alpha academica AI*
About

Academic diligence, for over a decade

alpha academica AI* combines years of teaching and supervision experience with state-of-the-art, AI-supported text analysis. What began in 2014 as exam preparation in Aachen is today a specialised service for academic proofreading, translation and mentoring.

Our story

From the seminar room to an AI-supported academy

In June 2014, alpha academica was founded in Aachen – initially as a provider of exam preparation and tutoring for pupils and students. The first tutoring sessions and exam-preparation seminars took place at our premises on Martinstraße.

From these beginnings grew an academic and career-oriented network of up to 20 staff over the years – students, part- and full-time staff as well as freelance lecturers. To date, more than 2,000 students have been successfully supported, in one-to-one tutoring as well as exam-preparation seminars at FH and RWTH Aachen.

With alpha academica AI* we are taking the next step: the same uncompromising academic standards, now amplified by AI-supported analysis – for proofreading, copy-editing, translation and mentoring at a new level of speed and precision.

2014
Founded in Aachen
2,000+
Students successfully supported
400+
Individual one-to-one sessions
15+
Seminars in mathematics & statistics
The team

People and technology

Behind every project stand academic expertise and an AI system that amplifies that expertise – it does not replace it.

Marco Bernal y Paños, M. Sc., founder of alpha academica

Marco Bernal y Paños, M. Sc.

Founder · Academic Director

Economist (M. Sc. Business and Economics) specialising in empirical economic research, entrepreneurship and marketing. Founder of alpha academica and, for over a decade, active as a seminar leader, lecturer and supervisor of academic work.

Mathematics & Statistics Empirical Research Marketing
AI

alpha academica AI*

AI-supported text analysis

Our specialised AI system analyses texts for errors, inconsistencies and stylistic weaknesses – fast, thorough and around the clock. Every analysis is guided and supervised by qualified academic staff. The technology works in service of human expertise, never in its place.

Proofreading Copy-editing Translation

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Academic background

Career & expertise

Career

2008–2011

Business Administration (B. Sc.)

Undergraduate studies in business administration.

2011–2013

M. Sc. Business and Economics

Economics at the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics. Focus areas: empirical economic research & quantitative methods, entrepreneurship, marketing.

2012–2013

Research Assistant

University of Wuppertal – empirical economic and social research.

2013

Master’s thesis with Axalta Coating Systems

Introduction & implementation of a B2B brand extension – in collaboration with industry.

since 2014

Owner & Academic Director, alpha academica

Building and leading an academic network of up to 20 staff. Seminar leader and lecturer in business mathematics and statistics.

Methodological competencies

Statistical data analysis

Regression analysis Analysis of variance Factor analysis Conjoint analysis Multidimensional scaling Structural equation models

Software

SPSS R AMOS STATA

Teaching & supervision

Business Mathematics 1 & 2 / Statistics 1 & 2

From translating economic problems into mathematical models to descriptive and inferential statistics – methodological competence for the entire economics degree.

Empirical research methods

Questionnaire design, hypothesis and model building, data analysis with SPSS – for economic and social-science papers and dissertations.

Degree advice & practical projects

Mentoring as well as supervision of bachelor’s and master’s theses from topic selection through to methodology.

Supervised theses as second examiner

2017
„Flexibilising personnel costs through a utilisation-dependent remuneration system within personnel controlling“
Controlling · Business Administration · FH Aachen
2018
„Service communication with Generation Z customers“
Human Resources · Business Administration · FH Aachen
2018
„Building a cost and management accounting system in service companies“
Controlling · Business Administration · Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

Supervising academic theses at university level – evidence of the depth of guidance that also informs our student mentoring.

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