# Prestigious Heinz Sauermann Prize for Christoph Drobner

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2025-09-30
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# Prestigious Heinz Sauermann Prize for Christoph Drobner

Former TUMCS PhD student **Christoph Drobner** has been awarded the prestigious Heinz Sauermann Prize of the Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung (GfeW).

Christoph Drobner (right) receives the certificate for his dissertation.

Christoph Drobner, who worked at Prof. Sebastian Goerg's Professorship of Economics, was recognized for his dissertation “The Evolution and Economic Consequences of Overconfidence” and has recently continued his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the **Central European University.** Prof. Drobner´s main research interest lies in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on the interactions between preferences and beliefs in the decision-making process.

Since 1990, the GfeW has been awarding the ‘Heinz Sauermann Prize for Experimental Economic Research’. Since 2019, the prize has been awarded every two years and is endowed with 3,000 euros. Anyone who has completed an outstanding scientific thesis in the field of experimental economic research at a German-speaking university during the application period is eligible to apply. The board of the society decides on the award of the prize by means of a review process.

The prize recognizes outstanding contributions by young scholars in experimental economics and commemorates Heinz Sauermann (1928–1981). Together with future Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten, Sauermann laid the foundations of experimental economics in Germany.