International Visiting Scholars
International visiting scholars are frequently joining the Department of Socioeconomics for longer periods. On the following pages, you will find information about the current and former international visiting scholars at the Department. The Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty provides information on support when applying for international visiting scholars on its website.
International Visiting Scholars 2023
- Hanna Kaitandzhian
Hanna Kaitandzhian is a guest researcher at the Chair of Public Management. Hanna is continuing her doctoral studies, which she is pursuing in collaboration between Odesa Mechnikov National University (Ukraine) and the University of Granada (Spain). Her research focuses on topics such as motivation and commitment in healthcare systems under the influence of military conflicts.
- Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen joins the Department of Socioeconomics as a visiting scholar as part of his PhD studies from November 2022 until January 2023. He holds a master's degree in Social Sciences and works in the field of urban sociology and geography at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Mobilities, sociospatial inequalities and imagined geographies are key subjects in his research. His current research investigates social inequality in cities focusing on differences in mobilities between urban neighbourhoods. He has been invited to come to Universität Hamburg by Prof. Katharina Manderscheid.
- Dr. Ufuk Pala
Ufuk Pala received his Ph.D. degree in Marketing from Anadolu University, Turkey, after having completed his thesis on “Comparison of the effects of market and relationship orientation on customer loyalty and business performance by meta-analysis”. He studied Business Administration (BA) and Business Information Management (Master’s Degree). Ufuk Pala is an academic member of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Giresun University, Turkey. He has various publications in academic journals and conference papers in the area of marketing.
Ufuk Pala’s research interests include digital marketing, marketing strategies, consumer behavior, and marketing research methods.
Ufuk Pala will join the professorship of Management & Digital Markets (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Späth) as visiting scholar from October 2022 until the end of September 2023.
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Prof. Dr. Lucia Bellora-BienengräberProf. Dr. Lucia Bellora-Bienengräber has been an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at University of Groningen (Netherlands) since 2020. Her research focuses on the investigation of controlling systems, in particular their design and use by management and their perception by employees. She also conducts research at the interface between internal and external accounting. Finally, she investigates the validity of measuring approaches in these research areas. She has been a visiting scholar with us since April 2020, initially at the invitation of Prof. Schiemann, and since 2022 at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Dominik Vogel, with the aim of further developing the joint research project "Measuring and Managing Performance and Risk in the Public Sector".
- Prof. Dr. Kim Schumacher
Prof. Dr. Kim Schumacher from Kyushu University will spend a two-week research stay at the Department of Socioeconomics in March 2023 to work on joint projects with Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen. His research area is Sustainable Finance and ESG.