Honorary Doctorates
At the annual Dies academicus celebration, each UZH faculty presents a distinguished researcher and teacher with an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. We are very proud of the honorary doctorates of our Faculty.
Below you will find the links to the laudation and further information on these outstanding personalities.
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2024 Prof. Dr. Douglas Bernheim
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Douglas Bernheim in recognition of his remarkable scientific contributions. This is to honor the versatility and significance of his pioneering research, particularly in the fields of game theory and behavioral economics, as well as the enormous influence of his work on science, the economy and society.
2023 Prof. Dr. Tova Milo
With Prof. Dr. Tova Milo, the Faculty is honoring one of the most prominent researchers bridging the gap between database systems and theoretical approaches, and a scientist who actively promotes women's rights and visibility in what is still a largely male-dominated scientific community.
2022 Prof. Dr. Eric Bettinger
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Eric P. Bettinger in recognition of his great contributions to the methodological and substantive development of the economics of education and his significant contributions to evidence-based education policy in both industrialized and developing countries.
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2021 Prof. Dr. Bruno Robert Jacques Biais
The Faculty acknowledges the versatility and importance of Prof. Dr. Biais' fundamental contributions to the advancement of academic research in finance, contract theory, political economy, experimental economics, and blockchain.
2020 Prof. Dr. Claudia Goldin
The Faculty honors Prof. Dr. Claudia Goldin for her outstanding scientific life's work. It thereby recognizes the versatility and significance of her pioneering research in the field of labor market and economic gender gap analysis, as well as the enormous impact of this work on science, the economy and society.
2019 Prof. Dr. Kathleen M. Carley
The Faculty honors Kathleen M. Carley's pioneering contributions to the understanding of social systems through methods of computer science. Through new methods of social network analysis, she has helped shape the development of Data Science and Computational Social Science and provided important impetus for the study of digitized societies.
2018 Prof. Dr. Royston Greenwood
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Royston Greenwood in recognition of his great contributions to the field of organizational studies. In particular, it recognizes his pioneering contributions to the development of institutional theory, which examines the interplay between organization and society, placing the securing of legitimacy at the center of analysis.
2017 Prof. Janet Currie
The Faculty honors Prof. Janet Currie's pioneering research, with which she helped found the economic analysis of child development and steadily advanced it over more than two decades. Her influence extends far beyond economics and, with key contributions to medicine, demography, and sociology, makes her one of the most cited economists in the world.
2016 Prof. Tuomas Sandholm
The Faculty recognizes the versatility and importance of Prof. Tuomas Sandholm's scholarly work at the intersection of computer science and game theory, particularly with respect to the design of electronic markets.
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2015 Prof. Dr. Susan E. Jackson
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Susan E. Jackson in recognition of her theoretical, empirical and methodological achievements in the fields of sustainability management, work group diversity and strategic human resource management. It thus honors a scientist who addresses practically relevant problems with scientific rigor.
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2014 Prof. Anat Admati, Ph.D
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Anat Admati, Ph.D., in recognition of her great contributions to financial market research, especially in the fields of information economics, corporate governance and banking regulation.
2013 Prof. Douglas W. Diamond
The Faculty recognizes Prof. Douglas W. Diamond's great contributions in connection with his pioneering role in the development of the theory of banking and financial intermediation.
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2012 Prof. Thomas W. Malone, PhD
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Thomas W. Malone, PhD, in recognition of his versatile and significant scientific contributions to the interaction between computer science and economics, in particular the influence of computer science on market structures, coordination problems and collective intelligence.
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2011 Prof. Dr. Matthew Rabin
The Faculty recognizes Prof. Dr. Matthew Rabin great achievements. With his work on the theory of fairness and reciprocity and on the theory of reference-dependent preferences, he has made a significant contribution to bridging the gap between psychology and economics, which has fundamentally changed microeconomic research over the last two decades.
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2010 Prof. Edward P. Lazear
The Faculty recognizes Prof. Edward P. Lazear's great services to the establishment and further development of personnel economics - a field which has ideally demonstrated the fruitfulness of a close integration of business administration and economics and which today is one of the most dynamic fields in economics.
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2007 Prof. Dr. Michael Brennan
The Faculty awards the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Michael Brennan in recognition of his great achievements in financial market research, particularly in the fields of asset pricing, corporate finance and derivative financial instruments.
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2006 Prof. Dr. Timothy Besley
The Faculty honors Prof. Dr. Timothy Besley in recognition of his great achievements in research into public economics, modern political economy and research into developing countries.