Faculty of Business and Economics

Awards for faculty members

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

  • Sebastian Firk, Chair of Management and Controlling (Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff), has been recognized for his outstanding research project at the 2016 doctoral symposium on the annual conference of the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ). Together with Jordan Ripply (University of Alabama, USA), he was the winner of the Research Pitching Competition.
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian J. Froese, Dr. Anna K. Bader und Lena E. Kemper, Chair of Human Resources Management and Asian Business: received the Best Paper Award of the PERSONALquarterly Best Paper Award at the annual meeting of the human resource management division of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB) for their paper entitled "When different attitudes toward women collide: The case of Scandinavian subsidiaries in Japan".
  • Dr. Steffen Jahn, Chair of Marketing, with a focus on consumer behaviour (Prof. Dr. Yasemin Boztu?), was recognized for his outstanding academic contribution "The Motivational Readiness Model of Entrepreneurship" at the Academy of Management (AOM) meeting, and awarded the Best Conceptual Paper Award.
  • Dr. Christian Michaelis, Chair of Business Education and Human Resource Development (Prof Dr. Susan Seeber) was awarded the Young Talent Award 2016 by Peter Lang LLC for his dissertation titled "Kompetenzentwicklung zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften: Eine Längsschnittstudie in der kaufmännischen Ausbildung".



Scholarships and awards for students

Since the 2011/2012 winter term, the University provides the Deutschlandstipendium (German scholarships) financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and private sponsors to support exceptionally talented and promising students. In the 2016/2017 funding period, 22 out of the 141 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 2016, 48 of these scholarships were awarded to the Faculty.


The 2016 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 2015/2016 winter semester:

  • Jan Christoph Hennig (Master of Science in Management)
  • Jonathan Lucas Moschner (Bachelor of Science in Business)
  • Paul Wiemann (Master of Science in Applied Statistics)
  • Verena Robin (Bachelor of Arts in Business and Human Resource Education)
  • Pascal Freier (Master of Science in Business Information Systems)
  • Dr. Ossama Elshiewy und Dr. Simon Thanh-Nam Trang (for their doctoral theses in Business Administration)
  • Dr. Hauke Hendrik Vierke (for his doctoral thesis in Economics)



2) At the end of the graduation ceremony of the Faculty to graduates from the 2016 summer semester:

  • Friederike Nagels (Master of Science in Marketing and Channel Management)
  • Jonas Fabian Rudsinske (Bachelor of Arts in Economics)
  • Robin Busse (Master of Education in Business and Human Resource Education)
  • Raphael Meyer von Wolff (Master of Science in Business Information Systems)