With an academic ceremony on Friday, 22 May 2026, the Faculty of Business and Economics at Göttingen University bid farewell to its graduates of the winter semester 2025/2026. A total of 420 students graduated in the past winter semester. 222 of them completed a Bachelor's programme, 198 a Master's programme. 31 doctoral students successfully completed their doctorates during the past year. Dean of Studies Prof. Dr. Stefan Dierkes welcomed the guests. Hannah Vögel spoke as a representative of the graduates of the winter semester. Dr Sebastian Busse, co-founder and managing director of Mineral Waste Manager GmbH, will also speak as an alumnus of the faculty. The "Florenz Sartorius Prizes" donated by Sartorius AG in Göttingen were also awarded during the event. The best graduates of the individual disciplines received a prize. The Faculty honoured Niklas Rolle (Master of Science in Finance, Accounting and Taxes) for his outstanding academic achievements in the field of business administration. Hannah Vögel (Master of Arts in History of Global Markets) was honoured in the field of Economics. In the field of Business Education, Annika Mareike Dambmann (Master of Education in Business and Human Resource Education) received the prize and Marwin Adam (Master of Science in Business Information Systems) in the field of Business Informatics. The faculty also awarded the "Florenz Sartorius Prize", endowed with 1,000 euros each, for outstanding dissertations in business administration and economics. The Faculty awarded the prize to Assistant Professor Dr Aycan Aslan for his thesis on "A Double-Edged Sword: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications - Conceptual and Empirical Insights into the Interaction of Medical Stakeholders with Artificial Intelligence Explanations" in the field of business administration. His supervisor was Prof. Dr Lutz M. Kolbe from the Chair of Information Management. In Economics, Dr Jonas Stehl was awarded the prize for his doctoral thesis "Essays on the Economics of Global Food Security". The thesis was reviewed by Prof Dr Sebastian Vollmer from the Chair of Development Economics and Global Health.
Graduates of the winter semester bid farewell with ceremony
Florenz Sartorius Prize for academic excellence awarded to students
Contact
Gesche Quent
Faculty of Business and Economics
Communication and Marketing
Tel. +49 551 39-25847
gesche.quent@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de
