PhD students 1. Cohort

PhD topic: Essays in Empirical Health Economics and Labor Economics

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich & Prof. Dr. Biliana Yontcheva

Research stay: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (03/2026)

PhD topic: The role of Patient Reported Outcomes Measures in trust and information assymmetries in patient -physician relationships

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Matthias Augustin & Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt

Research stay: Stanford University, USA (04-06/2026)

PhD topic: Essays on Health Economic Evaluation, Wellbeing and Willingness to Pay Measurement

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt & Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg

Research stay: Erasmus University Rotterdam (08-10/2024)

PhD topic: Provider response to payer incentives - Optimal diagnostic effort and treatment choice with imperfect treatments

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann & Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot

Research stay: GATE Institut, Lyon, France (03-05/2025)

PhD topic: Cooperation between health care providers and its impact on quality of care - An analysis of social networks

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt & Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg

Research stay: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA (10-12/2025)

PhD topic: Essays in Empirical Health Economic Policies

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg & Prof. Dr. Eva Wild

Research stay: SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, Italy (01&03/2026)

PhD topic: Causal Machine Learning with Applications in Health Care

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Martin Spindler & Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt

Research stay: University of California, San Diego, USA (09-12/2025)

PhD topic: Development and validation of a comprehensive electronic PROM to evaluate patient needs and benefits in people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Supervisors: PD Dr. Christine Blome & Prof. Dr. André Hajek

Research stay: University of Sheffield (10/2025)

PhD topic: Strengthening the role of patient preferences in choosing health care providers: Relevance and appropriateness of quality indicators for supporting patients' choice of hospital

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König & Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot

Abroad: St. Gallen

PhD topic: Discharge Planning in Cardiology Care - Assessing Interventions, Implementation and Effectiveness

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg & Prof. Dr. Vera Winter

Research stay: University of Cape Town, South Africa (01-02/2026)

PhD topic: Impact of provider behaviour on the quality of health care

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg & Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Research stay: Macquarie Universität, Sydney (02-05/2025)

PhD topic: Preferences of adults with mental illnesses in outpatient care

Supervision: Prof. Dr. André Hajek & PD Dr. Christine Blome

Research stay: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (04-07/2026)

PhD topic: Impact of patient characteristics on the quality of health care ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich & Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Research stay: KU Leuven, Belgium (02/2025)

PhD topic: Essays in Health Economics

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann & Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot

PhD topic: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Real-World Health Data using Machine Learning ‎

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Eva Wild & Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg

Research stay: University of Washington, Seattle, USA (04-06/2026)

PhD topic: Essays on insurer-induced health quality

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth & Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich

Research stay: ESCP Business School Paris, France (02-03/2026)

PhD topic: Essays in health insurer-induced quality of care for the poor and vulnerable

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth & Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Research stay: Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada (09-11/2025)

PhD topic: Stigmatization of People with ME/CFS by Healthcare Providers

Supervision: PD Dr. Christine Blome & Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg

Research stay: Medical University of Vienna (10/2025)

PhD topic: Payer incentives and quality of health care

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Johanna Kokot & Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann

Research stay: Kyoto University, Japan (03-06/2025)

PhD topic: Health economic evaluation of novel screening strategies for pancreatic cancer

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmut König & Prof. Dr. Tom Stargardt

Research stay: Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden (04-07/2026)