IWF Doctoral Seminar

Every semester there is an IWF Doctoral Seminar, which gives doctoral students the opportunity to present their work towards the professors of the institute.

In the Summer Term 2025, the presentations will take place in person at the FAU WiSo, Lange Gasse 20.

The following FAU doctoral candidates will present their research this semester:

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

seminar cancelled

Tuesday, June 17, 2025, Room LG 4.154

2:00–2:45 pm Severin Bachmann, “Interpretable Machine Learning for the German residential rental market – shedding light into model mechanics” (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wrede)
2:45–3:30 pm Nico Beck, „Commodity Price Forecasting in Procurement“ (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dovern)
Short break (5 min.)
3:35-4:20 pm Johannes Frank, “Multi-Task Learning for Macroeconomic Nowcasting” (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dovern)

Tuesday, July 15 2025, Room LG 4.154 (please note later timeframe)

3:30–4:15 pm Kiana Niazmand, The economics of global green ammonia trade – “Shipping Australian wind and sunshine to Germany” (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Grimm)

4:15–5:00 pm Anna Heusler, “Employment outcomes after career counselling in working life” (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fitzenberger)
Short break (5 min.)
5:05–5:50 pm Leonie Wicht, „Unintended Transitions: Employment Outcomes Following VET Displacement“ (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fitzenberger)

Each presenter is allotted 30 minutes plus a total of 15 minutes for discussion.

We hope that many of you from the IWF research community will attend these presentations and would welcome your productive contributions to the discussions.