Economic Engineer Jörn Hoppmann appointed

Prof. Dr. Jörn Hoppmann has been appointed Professor of Management at the Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law. He had held the Chair of Strategic Management and Corporate Sustainability in an interim capacity since 2017.

Hoppmann earned his Habilitation in 2018 at ETH Zurich, where he had also completed his PhD in 2013. He gained his diploma in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering in 2009 at the Braunschweig University of Technology. Research trips have taken him to Harvard University and MIT (both Cambridge, USA), the University of Waterloo in Canada, and IMD Business School in Lausanne (Switzerland). Hoppmann has received numerous awards for his work; for his lecture series “Introduction to Business Administration“ he won the University of Oldenburg’s 2018 teaching award for the best course. Hoppmann conducts research at the intersection of strategic management, sustainability, and innovation, particularly in in the context of the energy and mobility sectors. A focus area of his research is mechanisms that enable businesses to act more sustainably.