Faculty Awards 2026: Congratulations to all awardees!

We took advantage of Faculty Day on June 17, 2026, to present the 2026 Faculty Awards. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the award recipients!

Dr. My Hanh Doan and Dr. Benedikt Zipfel were awarded the Dr. Feldbausch Prize for outstanding dissertations . My Hanh Doan completed her doctoral studies at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting. Her dissertation, titled Corporate Sustainability Management and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Empirical Evidence from Reporting Practices, was supervised by Prof. Remmer Sassen. Benedikt Zipfel ’s dissertation on Integrated Production Planning for Additive Manufacturing was written at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular  Industrial Management, under the supervision of Prof. Udo Buscher.

The Dr. Händel-Award is intended to promote international contacts for the Faculty of Business and Economics. The 2026 award recipients are Dr. Ann Sophie Lauterbach from the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization and Management, and Daniel Vrankar from the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Finance and Financial Technology. Both will receive funding for research stays abroad. Ann Sophie Lauterbach plans to spend time at the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo with Prof. Christina Nerstad, a recognized expert in the field of healthy leadership. Daniel Vrankar intends to work at the University of Oxford alongside with Prof. Michael Rochlitz to complete a publication. 

With the Professor Hilbert Publication Award, the faculty aims to recognize outstanding publications by early-career researchers at the faculty and raise their profile externally. Among the 2026 award recipients are Anton Barabasch and Dr. Andreas Leibing (Chair of Quantitative Methods, in particular Econometrics), who are being honored for their paper Timing of School Entry and Personality Traits in Adulthood, co-authored with Prof. Kamila Cygan-Rehm and published in the European Economic Review . Simon Bolz (Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Policy and Economic Research) receives the award for the paper Unilateral Environmental Policy and Offshoring, which was co-authored with Dr. Philipp Richter and Dr. Fabrice Naumann and published in the Journal of International Economics. Finally, Hendrik Scharf ( Chair of Business Administration, in particular Energy Economics) receives the award for his single-authored paper How do Different Hydrogen and Emission Allowance Price Scenarios Shape the Cost-effective Energy Transition in Germany’s Process Industries? published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Finally, Russell McKenna, Professor of Energy Systems Analysis at ETH Zurich, was honored as Distinguished Research Fellow 2026. His research focuses on the holistic, interdisciplinary assessment of energy technologies and systems, the development and application of energy system models, and the development of methods for resource assessment of low-carbon technologies using open data. At TU Dresden, he will collaborate with Prof.  Dominik Möst and Dr. Hannes Hobbie from the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Energy Economics, on the project "Scale effects in highly-renewable distributed energy systems".