Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Board Member

Hans-Jürgen Andreß studied Social sciences and research methods at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and Ann Arbor (USA). He gained his Ph.D. at the University of Frankfurt/Main in 1983 and is at present Professor for Empirical Social and Economic Research at the University of Cologne (Germany). He has published in the field of labour markets, poverty research, social policy, and multivariate statistical methods.

Dirk Sliwka, Academic Director

Dirk Sliwka studied from 1991 until 1995 Economics at the University of Bonn and at the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique in Paris. He did his postdoctoral studies (1995-1999) within the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics in Bonn, Germany with an annual research stay at the London School of Economics. From 1999 until 2000 he was employed by SAP AG as a consultant for Controlling. During his habilitation (2000-2003) at the University in Bonn he was also working as a trainer on the subject of "Strategic Enterprise Management" for SAP AG.

Since 2004 he has been Chair of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management at the University of Cologne.

He has published in various international academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Labor Economics, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Karl Mosler, Board Member

Karl Mosler is Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Cologne since 1995. Previously, from 1985 to 1995, he was Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Economics at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg. He received his academic education at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich (Diplom Mathematiker, 1972), and at the Technical University of Munich (Dr. rer. nat., 1975). In 1981 he completed his “Habilitation” in Statistics and Operations Research. He has held temporary and visiting professorships at the universities of Kassel, Hamburg and Frankfurt/Oder as well as at the universities of Pavia and Milan (Bocconi) in Italy. He was awarded the “August Lösch Prize for Regional Science” and the “Erik Kampe Prize in memoriam Tord Palander” of the University of Umea. From 2004 to 2008 he was President of the German Statistical Society and since 2005 he serves as Vice President of the German Consortium in Statistics (DAGStat). He is one of the principal researchers of the Cologne Graduate School.

Mosler’s research interests include statistical and econometric methods, in particular the non-parametric analysis of multivariate data, the modeling of risk, and the measurement of social economic inequality. He is the author of four scientific monographs, three textbooks, and some sixty scholarly articles. Among other journals, he has published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Statistics, the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Inequality, Theory and Decision, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. In addition, he has served as editor and co-editor of several books and journals.

Jens Beckert, Board Member

Jens Beckert studied Sociology and Business Economics in Berlin, New York and Princeton. He graduated with a Dr. phil.  from the Freie Universität Berlin where he also received his habilitation in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the International University in Bremen and from 2003 to 2005 Professor of Sociology at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. In 2005 he became Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and  joined the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of. In 2010 he was appointed Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Professor Beckert’s research interests focus on the Role of the economy in society, especially based on studies of markets; organizational sociology; sociology of inheritance,  and sociological theory.

André Kaiser, Board Member

André Kaiser received his PhD from the University of Freiburg. He was habilitated at the University of Mannheim in 2000. Following a tenure at the University of Konstanz (2000-2001), he joined the University of Cologne in 2002. He has been a Full Professor of Political Science since 2003 and a member of the Faculty of the International Max Planck Research School “The Social and Political Constitution of the Economy” since 2007. Professor Kaiser’s international experience includes visiting professorships in Poland, Austria, New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain.

Professor Kaiser’s research interest is informed by the actor-centred institutionalist approach to the study of politics. Current research projects include party strategies on electoral markets, macro and micro effects of electoral systems and federalism and decentralization effects in OECD countries among others.

Marc Fischer, Board Member

A Board Member since 2012, Marc Fischer joined the Faculty in 2011 as Director of the Department of Marketing and Marketing Research. His research interests include conceptual and empirical research that demonstrates the marketing impact on bottom-line result and firm value; marketing-mix optimization; brand management and market response models/econometric modelling.

Marc Fischer studied Management at the University of Mannheim with a focus on Production Management, Controlling and English/American Studies. He graduated with a PhD from Mannheim and obtained his qualification as professor at the University of Kiel. Being called by both the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid) and the University of Passau he joined the latter in 2007. Interrupting his academic career from 2001 to 2002 he became a Consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Professor Fischer is a regular guest researcher at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA,Member of the Advisory Council of the Marketing Accountability Standards Board, Chicaco and Member of the Academic Board of the Zentrum für Markenmanagement and Marketing.

Bettina Rockenbach, Board Member

 Bettina Rockenbach holds a diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn. In her graduate and post-graduate studies with Reinhard Selten she specialized in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory. From 2000 to 2011 Bettina Rockenbach was Full Professor of Microeconomics and from 2008 to 2011 Vice-President for Research and Young Academics at the University of Erfurt. In 2011 Bettina Rockenbach was appointed as the CGS Professor for Experimental and Behavioral Economics at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne. Since 20112 Bettina Rockenbach is Vice Dean for Research and Young Academics at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. Professor Rockenbach's research interests are in Behavioral Economics with a special focus on Cooperation in Social Dilemmas. Her research has been published in economic as well as general interest journals such as Science and Nature. Bettina Rockenbachh has held visiting positions at the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg, NL, the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena USA and the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego USA.