Portraits of funded doctoral candidates and postdocs

Katharina Bettig (Chair of Economics, specializing in Public Finance) spent a research fellowship at the University of Sydney in Australia in early 2026. She was invited by Gregor Pfeifer, a senior lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. He is an applied microeconometrician and conducts research primarily on topics related to health and education economics. Learn more

Dr. Ianina Scheuch (Chair of Business Education and Management Training) has spent numerous research stays abroad in recent years, particularly in English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom (University of Oxford) and Australia (University of Sydney), and has established a wide range of international collaborations during that time. Learn more

Alexander Blume (Chair of Business Administration, in particular Industrial Management) was a visiting researcher at the School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tongji University in Shanghai for three months - from mid-September to mid-December 2025. Learn more

Tom Dudda was a guest at the Finance Section of the Utrecht School of Economics (U.S.E.) in the Netherlands for five weeks from November to mid-December 2024. Learn more

Olga Tcaci

From end of January to end of March 2024, Olga Tcaci spent a research stay at the University of Portsmouth, Faculty of Business and Law at the invitation of Ali Sina Önder. Learn more

Simon Johannes Bolz

Simon Johannes Bolz completed a research stay at the Indian Council for Social Science Research from mid-September to the end of October 2023. Learn more

Xenia Börner and Valeria Knels

From February to April 2024, Xenia Börner and Valeria Knels spent research stays at Kobe University, Japan and Nanyang Business School, Singapur. Learn more

Jantke de Boer, doctoral candidate in Economics

Jantke de Boer was a guest of Professor Lucio Sarno at Cambridge Judge Business School from April to June 2022. Jantke financed her stay with funds from the Deutsche Bundesbank Award, among others. Learn more