Faculty of Business and Economics

Awards for faculty members

The following professors and researchers have received various awards for their outstanding academic achievements:

  • Dr. Astrid Krenz, at the Chair of International and Monetary Economics (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rübel), has been awarded the Durham International Junior Research Fellowship of Durham University, UK. Her project "Firm-level analyses of Agglomeration Externalities, Knowledge Spillovers and Productivity Growth" will be supported for two years. The financial funds stem from the Marie Curie research grant action COFUND of the European Union.
  • Prof. Dr. Maik Hammerschmidt, Stefan Fischer (both Chair of Marketing and Innovation Management) and Prof. Dr. Welf Weiger (Chair of Digital Marketing (“Juniorprofessur”)) were awarded the Best Paper Award in the Metrics for Making Marketing Matter track of the American Marketing Association (AMA) Winter Conference 2017 for their paper, "Signals from the Echoverse - The Informational Value of Brand Buzz Dispersion". The paper investigates the degree to which the distribution of brand-related content (so-called brand buzz) from social media channels and its reach can be attributed to the value of companies.
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Froese, Dr. Sebastian Störmer and Samuel Davies (all Chair of HRM and Asian Business) have been conferred the Best Conference Paper Award at this year's annual meeting of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) in Glasgow, UK, for their paper entitled "The Influence of Cultural Intelligence on Expatriate Knowledge Sharing: A Multilevel Country Analysis". The paper has further received the "Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research (Emerald) Best Paper Award" at the Standing Track of Expatriate Management of EURAM's International Management Special Interest Group. In their paper the authors examine the role of expatriates' cultural intelligence across 30 countries, representing ten distinct cultural clusters, for their embeddedness in the host country organization and knowledge sharing behaviours in the workplace.
  • On December 8, Christian Bommer, Esther Heesemann and Vera Sagalova, research associates of the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer), were awarded a prize from the Göttingen University’s Stiftungsrat (Foundation Council for the entire Foundation University) in the category of outstanding young researcher publication for their paper, "The Global Economic Burden of Diabetes: A Cost-of-Illness Study". The article, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, was written by an international research team including Harvard University and Heidelberg University and for the first time, systematically quantifies the economic cost of diabetes worldwide.



Scholarships and awards for students
Since the 2011/2012 winter term, the University provides the Deutschlandstipendium (Germany scholarship) financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and private sponsors to support exceptionally talented and promising students. In the 2017/2018 funding period, 26 out of the 165 scholarships were given to students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences. The University also grants additional so-called Niedersachsenstipendien (Lower Saxony scholarships) funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK). In 2017, 48 of these scholarships were awarded to the Faculty.

The 2017 Florenz Sartorius Prize presented by Sartorius for excellent academic achievement and dissertations (only one per year) were awarded to the following:

1) At the end of the graduation ceremony of the Faculty to graduates from the 2016/2017 winter semester:

  • Lea Neufeld (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration)
  • Jonas Seesing (Bachelor of Arts Economics (Two-Subject Bachelor))
  • Jens Rakers (Bachelor of Arts in Business and Human Resource Education)
  • David Marz (Master of Science in Business Information Systems)
  • Dr. Sebastian Firk und Dr. Christian Michaelis (for their doctoral theses in Business Administration)
  • Dr. Alexander Silbersdorff (for his doctoral thesis in Economics)



2) At the end of the graduation ceremony of the Faculty to graduates from the 2017 summer semester:

  • Laura Eckardt und Simon Wetterau (beide Bachelor of Science in Business Administration)
  • Lisa Bogler (Master of Arts in Development Economics)
  • Chiara Alexandra Meiners (Master of Education in Business and Human Resource Education)
  • Christian Schuster (Master of Science in Business Information Systems)