Aug 27, 2025
Call for Applications: Distinguished Research Fellows Program 2026
We are pleased to announce the call for our Distinguished Research Fellowship Program 2026. Up to three research fellowships for internationally renowned scholars will be granted. Applications are possible till December 15, 2025.
Key objectives associated with the Distinguished Research Fellowships are to foster innovative ideas and initiate exciting, vibrant research collaborations, to support the development of PhD candidates and early-career scholars (e.g. postdocs) of the Faculty, as well as to further expand the international research network and activities of the Faculty of Business and Economics.
Fellowship application is open to all international scholars at the professor level (professors as well as outstanding assistant and associate professors) who:
- are active researchers in one of the following fields: business information systems, business administration, and economics,
- work at a university, or research institution, outside Germany, and
- have no recent collaboration history (e.g. no joint research projects and/or publications within the last five years) with members of the Faculty of Business and Economics.
Read more about the program, the previous fellows and the application regulations
Sven Anders from the University of Aberta with his hosts Christian Leßmann and Dominik Möst © Klaus Gigga
Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto School of Business) together with his hosts Kamila Cygan-Rehm and Andreas Leibing and the Dean, Michael Schefczyk © Klaus Gigga
© Klaus Gigga
Bismark Singh (University of Southampton) with the students of his PhD seminar Chance-constrained Programming. © Florian Linß
Bismark Singh together with Dominik Möst, Marcel Thum, Tristan Becker and Udo Buscher © schwarz
Oliver Krancher (IT University Copenhagen) together with professors and research associates from the Business Information Systems group. © wibe
Michael Schefczyk and Dimitrios Xefteris (University of Cyprus) © schwarz
Elizabeth Embry (University of Kansas Business School) and Michael Schefczyk © schwarz
Benoit Chevalier Roignant (emlyon Business School) and Michael Schefczyk © wiwi
Ramteen Sioshansi with his host Dominik Möst © ee2
At his award ceremony, Mike Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago) spoke about "Data-driven Optimization Model Customization". © wiwi
Mike Hewitt and the team of the Chair of Business Administration, esp. Industrial ManagementChicago. © im
In her research talk, Kathrin Kirchner (Technical University of Denmark) spoke about the joint project with the Chair of Business Engineering: "Algorithms as Managers – Mitigating Harmful Effects on the Well-being of Platform Workers". © wiwi
Michaelis Drouvelis with reasearch associates of the Chair of Economics, esp. Public Economics © fiwi
Piyush Sharma (Curtin University Perth) spoke in the colloquium about the challenges on the way to become a researcher. © schwarz
Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky (both University of Auckland), Martin Wiener and Susanne Strahringer © wibe