2008:
SWFA Best Conference Paper Award, Best Paper Award
Southwest Finance Association Annual Meeting 2008 in Houston (USA).
for: “Why Managers Hold Shares of Their Firm: Empirical Evidence”
Academy of Management Emerald Best Student Paper, Best Paper Award
Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Anaheim (USA).
for: “The Impact of Work Group Diversity on Performance: Large Sample Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry”
2007:
Acatis Value Price (2. Place), Price fort he Best Paper on “Value Investing”
for: “Why Managers Hold Shares of Their Firm: Empirical Evidence”
SABE Best Conference Paper Award, Best Paper Award
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) at New York University (NYU)
for: “Sex Matters: Gender Differences in a Professional Setting”
2006:
Swisscanto Award for the best professional paper in “Financial Markets and Portfolio Management” in 2005
for "Mutual Fund Growth in Standard and Specialist Market Segments
DGF Best Conference Paper, Best Paper Award
13th Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF) at the European Business School (ebs).
for: „Sex Matters: Gender Differences in a Professional Setting“
2003:
GFC Best Paper Award
10th Global Finance Conference in Frankfurt
for: “Tournaments in Mutual Fund Families”
2001:
BSI Gamma Foundation Grant, Research Grant
for: “Tournaments in the Mutual Fund Industry”
Several travel stipends from the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German Association of Business Professors (VHB), the German Finance Association (DGF), der German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), the German Central Bank and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Additionally, several publication premia from the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne.