Successes and awards

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In the past, employees and students in the department have achieved the following successes and received the following awards:

  • 2025: 2nd place in the delina Innovation Award for Digital Education in the “University” category for “LegalWriter—an AI-powered learning system for developing legal writing skills” (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner, Thiemo Wambsganss, and Florian Weber)
  • 2025 Recognition at the Hessian Higher Education Award for Excellence in Teaching for the AI-supported teaching concept centered on “LegalWriter” (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner and Florian Weber)
  • Senior Editor on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
  • 2024 Ranked in the top 70 out of over 3,600 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries based on research output between 2020 and 2024 in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Ranked in the top 6 based on career achievements among researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
  • 2022: Ranked in the top 100 out of over 3,600 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries based on research output between 2018 and 2022 in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Top 10 based on the career achievements of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
  • 2022 Innovation in Teaching Award from the Association for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
  • 2021 delina Innovation Award for Digital Education in the “University” category (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner together with Thiemo Wambsganß, Christina Niklaus, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh, and Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister from the University of Kassel and St. Gallen)
  • 2021 Best Associate Editor of the “Design Research and Methods in Information Systems” track at ECIS 2021 (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
  • 2021 Honorable Mention Award at ACM CHI 2021 (for the paper: Wambsganss, T., Kueng, T., Söllner, M., and Leimeister, J. M. 2021. “ArgueTutor: An Adaptive Dialog-Based Learning System for Argumentation Skills,” in Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Y. Kitamura, A. Quigley, K. Isbister, T. Igarashi, P. Bjørn, and S. Drucker (eds.), New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1–13. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445781).)
  • 2021 Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Educational Technology in 2020 from the Educational Technology Section of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Corinne Ruckstuhl, then a student at the University of St. Gallen)
  • 2020 Early Career Award from the Association for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
  • 2020 Ranked in the Top 100 out of over 3,300 business administration researchers in the German-speaking world, based on research output between 2016 and 2020, in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Top 20 based on the career achievements of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
  • 2020 AOM MED Division Global Forum Best Paper Award (for the paper: Winkler, R., Soellner, M., and Leimeister, J. M. 2020. “Improving Students’ Problem-Solving Skills with Smart Personal Assistants,” Academy of Management Proceedings (2020:1), p. 11496. (https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.11496abstract).)
  • 2020 ACM CHI 2020 Honorable Mention Award (for the paper: Wambsganss, T., Niklaus, C., Cetto, M., Söllner, M., Handschuh, S., and Leimeister, J. M. 2020. “AL: An Adaptive Learning Support System for Argumentation Skills,” in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, R. Bernhaupt, F. “Floyd” Mueller, D. Verweij, J. Andres, J. McGrenere, A. Cockburn, I. Avellino, A. Goguey, P. Bjørn, S. Zhao, B. P. Samson, and R. Kocielnik (eds.), New York, NY, USA: ACM, pp. 1–14. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376732).)
  • 2019 Top 100 out of over 2,800 business administration researchers in German-speaking countries, based on research output between 2014 and 2018, in a ranking by WirtschaftsWoche. Ranked in the top 30 based on the career achievements of researchers under 40 (same ranking, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner).
  • 2018 Award for the best master’s thesis of 2018 in the field of e-learning from the E-Learning Section of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Kevin Duss, then a student at the University of St. Gallen)
  • 2017 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management (Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)
  • 2016 Award for the Best Bachelor’s Thesis of 2015 in the Field of E-Learning from the E-Learning Section of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) (Julia Nölker, then a student at the University of Kassel)
  • 2014 Academic Award 2013/2014 from the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel (dissertation award, Prof. Dr. Matthias Söllner)