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Dissertation Projects

Many doctoral students at the University of Mannheim are researching sustainability topics. On this website, you can find out more about their dissertation projects. For more information on doctoral studies, please click here.

Business School

Tobias Breitenbach

Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Start year: 2024
Chair/Institute: Chair of Supply Chain Management
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Moritz Fleischmann

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Giuliana Manganaro. Sie trägt eine weiße Bluse und steht vor einer Holztür.
Giuliana Francesca Manganaro

Marketing the organizational purpose

Start year: 2023
Chair/Institute: Chair of Sales & Services Marketing
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Florian Kraus

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Robert Dehghan

Location factors and ecosystem embedding of sustainability-engaged blockchain companies in the US. A web-based analysis

Start year: 2022
Chair/Institute: Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Michael Woywode

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Eric Klebeck

The Impact of Political Ideology on Sustainable Consumption: A Social Identity Theory Perspective

Start year: 2022
Chair/Institute: Chair of Marketing & Innovation
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Sabine Küster

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 Hilal Müge Cakan. Sie lächelt und trägt ein dunkleblau gestreiftes Hemd.
Hilal Müge Cakan

Sustainable Technologies: Policy Impact on Economic and Environmental Performance

Start year: 2020
Chair/Institute: Chair of Supply Chain Management
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Moritz Fleischmann

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Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies (MISES)

Rezvan Derayati. Sie trägt einen schwarzen Pullover und steht vor einer Holztür.
Rezvan Derayati

The Economics of Clean Energy Transition

Start year: 2022
Chair/Institute: Mannheim Institute für Sustainable Energy Studies (MISES)
Supervisor: Professor Stefan Reichelstein, Ph.D.

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Katrin Gschwind

Cost-efficient Decarbonization of Vehicle Fleets

Start year: 2021
Chair/Institute: Mannheim Institute für Sustainable Energy Studies (MISES)
Supervisor: Professor Stefan Reichelstein, Ph.D.

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School of Business Informatics and Mathematics

Daniel Kerger

Enhancing and Understanding Public Micromobility Sharing Systems

Start year: 2025
Chair/Institute: Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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Julian Aßmann

Downsizing Large Language Models

Start year: 2024
Chair/Institute: Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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Jakob Kappenberger

Social Simulation for Policy Evaluation

Start year: 2022
Chair/Institute: Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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Lea Cohausz

Transparency and Fairness in Educational Data Mining

Start year: 2021
Chair/Institute: Chair of Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt

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Department of Economics

Portrait of Mingjie Xu. He is wearing a white shirt and standing in front of a door.
Mingjie Xu

Social Norm, Household Decision, and Gender Inequality

Start year: 2022
Chair/Institute: Chair of Macro- and Development Economy
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Michèle Tertilt

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Portrait of Yin Yiwei. She is wearing a green/blue/white checked jacket and is standing in front of a door of Mannheim Palace.
Yiwei Yin

Unemployment Insurance and Family Risk Sharing; Part-Time Work Policies and Older Workers’ Employment

Start year: 2021
Chair/Institute: Chair of Macro- and Development Economy
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michèle Tertilt; Prof. Han Ye, Ph.D.; Prof. Arthur Seibold, Ph.D.

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Ursula Berresheim. Sie trägt einen hellbraunen Pullover und steht vor dunkelbraunen Holztür.
Ursula Berresheim

Work from Home, Work for Less? Location Flexibility and Women’s Careers

Start year: 2020
Chair/Institute: Chair of Macro- and Development Economy
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michèle Tertilt

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Portrait of  Johannes Gessner. He is wearing a shirt with a black jacket over it and is standing in front of a white background.
Johannes Gessner

Policies and Interventions to Decarbonize Passenger Transportation

Start year: 2019
Chair/Institute: Chair of Quantitative Economics
Supervisor: Professor Ulrich Wagner, Ph. D.

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Sabine Stillger. Sie trägt ein graues Jackett über einem weißen Oberteil und steht vor einer Holztür.
Sabine Stillger

The role of Firm Heterogeneity and Intermediate Inputs in Carbon Leakage

Start year: 2019
Chair/Institute: Chair of Quantitative Economics
Supervisor: Professor Ulrich Wagner, Ph. D.

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School of Social Sciences

Ira Herwig

Social influences on meat consumption

Start year: 2021
Chair/Institute: Chair of Health Psychology
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Jutta Mata

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Are you a researcher or teacher at the University of Mannheim devoted to the topic of sustainability? Do you want to see your project, seminar, or lecture included on the website? Do not hesitate to get in touch with nachhaltigkeitmail-uni-mannheim.de.

Fabio Kratzmaier hat kurze braune Haare und einen kurzen Bart. Er trägt eine Brille und ein graues Oberteil.

Fabio Kratzmaier, M.A.

Research and Sustainability Communication Officer
University of Mannheim
President's Office
Schloss Ostflügel
68161 Mannheim