Dr. Matthias Söllner was one of two prize winners at the 2013 Science Award ceremony on 3 July 2014 in the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel.

Dr. Matthias Söllner from the Department of Information Systems completed his dissertation on "Deriving Trust Supporting Components for Ubiquitous Information Systems" with great success in 2013 as part of the LOEWE research focus VENUS. The outstanding evaluation of his doctorate prompted the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel to award him the 2013 Science Prize in recognition of this achievement.

This award was presented to him at the graduation ceremony of the Department of Economics on Thursday, July 3, 2014. In his laudatory speech, Prof. Dr. Jan Maro Leimeister referred to the special significance of this work, which was produced within the interdisciplinary framework of the LOEWE-VENUS project. While the role and effect of people's trust in ubiquitous IT innovations has already been dealt with many times in the literature, Dr. Söllner's dissertation, written in English, is the first to address the question of how innovative systems must be designed in order to gain the trust of users. The trust-supporting components developed by Dr. Söllner ... "can support developers of ubiquitous information systems in the design of their systems and offer a lot of potential for further research," says Professor Leimeister.

Dr. Söllner had already received the same appreciation for his work a week earlier on 27 June 2014 at INTARGIA Managementberatung when he was invited to the colloquium of the three finalists for the TARGION Science Award 2014.

Dr. Matthias Söllner's dissertation was published by kassel university press. link to the publication