News
Prof. Sebastian Eichfelder - the Expert for the EU Parliament
On May 19th, the European Parliament 's tax subcommittee held a public hearing on the topic "The impact of tax policies on the housing crisis in the EU". "The purpose of the hearing will be to explore the intersection of EU tax matters and the housing crisis. It will examine whether some tax practices affect the affordability and accessibility of housing in the EU and what tax policies could contribute to addressing both the immediate challenges and long-term structural issues in the housing sector". Prof. Sebastian Eichfelder, head of the Chair of Business Taxation, was one of the invited experts who presented to the committee and thereafter answered questions from members of parliament. This is a tremendous honour and significant recognition of his professional expertise in the field!
Best Presentation Award to Kim Siegling
Congratulations to Kim Siegling, M. Sc., research assistant at the Chair of Management and Organization, for beeing honored with the Best Presentation Award at the International conference on Organizational Behavior, Performance and Leadership (ICOBPL 2025). The presentation, given in the beginning of April, was based on the research paper titled “ A Fuzzy-Logic Approach to Rule-Based Systems for Leadership Style Selection”. The paper was co-authored with Prof. Thomas Spengler and Sebastian Herzog and is published in the International Journal of Mathematics and Computational Sciences (vol. 19, no. 4, 2025).
Prof. Dr. Reichling - President of the Board of the Otto-von-Guericke Society e.V.
The Otto von Guericke Society e. V. recently elected a new Executive Board, and Professor Peter Reichling, Chairholder of Finance and Banking at the Faculty of Economics and Management, has been chosen as the new President of the association.
We congratulate Prof. Reichling on his election and wish him great success in his new role. You can find the official announcement from the society and a photo of the newly elected board here.
Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group at the Chair of Management Science: DFG Funding Extended
We are pleased to share exciting news from the Chair of Management Science: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the funding for the second phase of the Emmy-Noether Junior Research Group. This extension includes additional funding of approximately €600,000 and will support the group until mid-2028.
The Emmy-Noether-Program is one of the DFG's flagships designed to support outstanding early-career researchers. It enables them to qualify for a university professorship by independently leading a research group over a period of six years.
Professor Marlin Ulmer, who received this prestigious funding shortly before joining the Faculty of Economics and Management in 2021, has been investigating stochastic and dynamic decision-making problems in urban mobility and logistics. He works closely with Charlotte Ackva, Jonas Stein, and other international collaborators.
As part of this project, Charlotte Ackva will spend an extended research stay this spring with Professor Mike Hewitt at the Loyola University Chicago, further strengthening international collaboration within the group.
Welcome to the Faculty of Economics and Management!
Dear students,
In order to enable a successful start of your studies and thus to facilitate the beginning of your new phase of life, the introduction days for the summer semester 2025 will take place at FEM in the period from April, 1st to April, 4th 2025. All dates for these introduction days, as well as important information about orientation at OVGU, can be found on the following website. There are also other interesting event offerings during the first week of lectures!
It starts on Tuesday, April, 1st 2025 at 2.00 p.m. in building 22 lecture hall 2 with the central opening event of FEM and the welcome by the Dean of study affairs, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Eichfelder. The event will take place in presence.
More information about the organization of the summer semester 2025 can be found here.
If you have any questions and/or concerns, please contact us (studiendekan-fww@ovgu.de)!
Your FEM Dean's Office of Study Affairs