AWARDS & HONORS
Recognition for Research, Teaching, and Impact
My work in decision sciences, operations management, data science, and decision-focused education has received national and international recognition. These awards honour contributions to research, practical application, teaching, and societal impact.
FEATURED RECOGNITION
Selected highlights
2026 · TEACHING
INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice
INFORMS – Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Prize for exemplary teaching of OR/MS practice through rigorous, practice-centred education in decision analysis — in particular for preparing students to apply Value-Focused Thinking and multiattribute utility theory to consequential real-world decisions, and for advancing how decision analysis is taught. First awarded to a European institution.
2026 · TEACHING
Ars Docendi – Austrian State Prize for Excellence in Teaching – Award of Recognition for Excellence in Teaching
Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research
Awarded for the course “From Expertise to Judgment: Developing Decision Competence Systematically.” Students work on real societal and economic decision problems; assessment focuses not on a supposedly correct answer but on the quality of objective structuring, the handling of uncertainty, and the transparency of reasoning under conflicting objectives.
2026 · RESEARCH
Richard Price Award in Data Science and Fellowship
International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management
Award for outstanding contributions to data science and its application to planning and prioritisation decisions — in particular for work that combines data-driven and AI-supported methods with multi-criteria decision methods, and translates analytical insights into well-founded resource and capital allocation decisions under uncertainty.
2026 · IMPACT
Inspirational Achievement Award
Society of Decision Professionals
Award for outstanding contributions to decision analysis and to the advancement of the field — in particular for work on data-based decision-making, supply chain management and multi-criteria methods, and for translating scientific findings into international practice projects and socially impactful decision-making.
SPOTLIGHT
Decision Analysis Society Practice Award
Three of my applied decision-analysis projects were selected as finalists for the Practice Award of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS.
2020 · FINALIST
Portfolio Management in Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Development of a prioritization model for the early-stage development pipeline of a leading global pharmaceutical company, in collaboration with Strategic Decisions Group.
2016 · FINALIST
Identifying and Structuring the Objectives of ISIS and Its Followers
Applied research project conducted in collaboration with Detlof von Winterfeldt and Richard John.
2013 · FINALIST
Strategy and Performance Measurement
Development of a Balanced Scorecard based on a differentiated means–ends network.
SELECTED EARLIER HONORS
Further awards, nominations & shortlists
2026
CEEMAN — International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies
2026
Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research
2025
Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research.
2023
AWARD
Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education
2023
Atlas of Good Teaching (Austrian national good-practice repository)
RECOGNITION
Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research — for the MOOC “Making smart decisions proactively” (in German, developed with Ralph L. Keeney, iMooX)
2017
Decision Analysis Society Publication Award
NOMINATION
For “Creating More and Better Alternatives for Decisions Using Objectives,” with Ralph L. Keeney
2015
University Association of Bayreuth Award
NOMINATION
Nominated by the Faculty of Law, Business and Economics for achievements in the habilitation
2009
City of Bayreuth Award
AWARD
For one of the three best doctoral dissertations at the University of Bayreuth