Dean's Office

Clemens Puppe has been a professor of economic theory at the Institute of Economics (ECON) at KIT since 2003. After studying mathematics and philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin, earning his doctorate at the University of Karlsruhe, and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he earned his habilitation at the University of Vienna in 1997. From 1997 to 2003, he was on the faculty at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on microeconomic theory, particularly the theory of individual and collective decision-making. He has published numerous papers in high-impact international academic journals. Clemens Puppe is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Choice and Welfare, a member of the editorial board of Economics and Philosophy, and co-editor of the Handbook of Rational and Social Choice published by Oxford University Press. Clemens Puppe maintains close ties with leading research institutions in Germany and abroad. During the 2021–22 academic year, he served as an “Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow” at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Martin Ruckes is Professor for Finance and Banking at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since February 2007. From 2013 and 2016, Martin Ruckes held also the position of the dean of studies responsible for the fields of study on "Industrial Engeneering and Management" and "Economics Engineering". Martin Ruckes earned his PhD in Economics and his Diplom in Business Economics from the University of Mannheim. After his PhD, Martin spent seven year as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business (USA). He is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of Corporate Finance amd Financial Intermediation. His research has been published in many high reputable international journals like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Since 2011, he is also member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Aalto University School of Business.

Prof. Dr. Ann-Kristin Kupfer has been a professor of marketing at KIT since 2021. There, she leads the “Digital Marketing” research group and serves as co-director of the Institute for Customer Insights (CIN). She earned her Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Münster, with research stays at the University of New South Wales, the University of British Columbia, and Texas Christian University. Her research lies at the intersection of marketing, technology, and consumer behavior. Her work has been published in a number of high-impact international journals, including the Journal of Marketing. Ann-Kristin Kupfer has received multiple awards for her achievements in both research and teaching.

Prof. Dr. Petra Nieken has held the Chair of Human Resource Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2014. Her work sits at the intersection of organizational economics, behavioral economics, and leadership research,  combining rigorous theory with experimental methods to understand how people lead, cooperate, and perform in modern organizations. Before joining KIT, Prof. Nieken was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn, where she was a member of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems." From 2013 to 2014, she was a visiting researcher at the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. She has also been associated as an adjunct professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Prof. Nieken completed her doctorate within the DFG Research Training Group "Risk Management" at the University of Cologne. At KIT, Prof. Nieken serves as spokesperson of the Karlsruhe Decision & Design Lab (KD2Lab), KIT's infrastructure for experimental research in economics and decision science. She is Principal Investigator in the DFG-funded research training group KD2School. She serves as associate editor of The Leadership Quarterly since 2026 and is active in the ManyDesign and ManyLabs initiatives. She collaborates with industry partners including NIM — the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions

Oliver Grothe received his doctorate at the Research Training Group for Risk Management from the University of Cologne (2008) and habilitated there in 2013. He holds university diplom degrees in Physics and in Business Administration. He gained practical insights through his consulting work on quantitative risk management for energy suppliers. Since 2015, he holds the Chair of Analytics and Statistics at KIT. Professor Grothe has numerous, interdisciplinary research interests at the interface between statistics and machine learning. His particular areas of focus include dependence structures in high-dimensional data and processes, risk measurement and financial market modeling, problems in medical statistics, and practically relevant questions related to energy markets and energy supply. For him, teaching at a research university has the task of inspiring students at an early stage and at a high methodological level for their own research and innovation work. With its international research strength, its flexible and individualizable study programs, and a founder network close to the university, the KIT-Faculty of Economics and Management and the KIT as a whole provide the ideal environment for this.

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Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer is a full professor at KIT in the Department of Economics and Management. She leads the SECUSO research group. From August 2016 until March 2018 she was a Professor (Kooperationsprofessur) at the Department of Computer Science of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. From December 2015 until December 2018, she has been appointed Full Professor for Usable Privacy and Security at Karlstad University (Sweden). Before she was an Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt. Prof. Volkamer has been heading the research group "SECUSO - Security, Usability and Society" since 2011.

Rebecca Valerius studied history, English, and European studies at the University of Trier until 2014. She then worked at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the SFB/TTR “Dynamics of Security” on an early modern research project. After several research fellowships, she joined the Karlsruhe University of Education in 2020 as personal assistant to the rector, where she also managed the office of the State Rectors' Conference of Universities of Education for two years. She moved to KIT in March 2025. As managing director of the KIT Department of Business and Economics, she oversees appointment and habilitation procedures and is responsible for finances, human resources, and committee support for the department, as well as managing the dean's administration team.

Eve-Marion Weiss

Kollegiengebäude am Kronenplatz
Building. 05.20, Room 3B 05.2
Kaiserstraße 89
76133 Karlsruhe

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