Profile

Marliese Uhrig-Homburg is Full Professor of Finance at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where she holds the Endowed Chair (DZ BANK) of Financial Engineering and Derivatives and serves as Executive Director of the Institute for Finance at the Department of Economics and Management. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim and completed her habilitation on “The Cost of Debt, Credit Risk, and Optimal Capital Structure” in 2001. Her research spans asset pricing, derivatives, risk management, liquidity, energy finance, and cryptocurrencies. She bridges empirical capital market research and theoretical asset pricing, with a strong focus on financial modeling. Her work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. She also has substantial experience managing third-party funded research projects.

Activities in the Research System

• DFG Selection Committee for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize: Member (current)
• DFG Review Board 112 (Economics): Elected member 2016–2024; Spokesperson 2020–2022; Deputy Spokesperson 2022–2024
• Permanent Advisory Board for Tenure-Track Procedures at Goethe University: Member
• German Finance Association (DGF): Advisory Board member since 2003; Co-Chair (2014); Chair (2015); since 2024 also Chairwoman of the Women-in-Finance Event
• House of Energy Markets and Finance; Frankfurt Institute for Risk Management & Regulation (FIRM): Advisory Board member
• DZ BANK Foundation: Board member since 2012
• Stiftung für die Wissenschaft der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe: Scientific Advisory Board member since 2022
• Deutsche Bundesbank Research Data and Service Centre: Advisory Board member 2016–2020
• German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB): Co-Chair of the “Banks and Financing” committee 2010–2013

Academic Self-Governance at KIT

• KIT Senate: Elected member since 2023; elected spokesperson of all members of the KIT Senate since 2025
• KIT Supervisory Board: Member 2015–2019
• Vice Dean, Department of Economics and Management: 2008–2022
• University Research Council CRYS: Elected member 2011–2016
• Conference Organization: Co-organizer of the International Symposium on Finance, Banking, and Insurance (2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014), with the 2014 edition held jointly with the Annual Meeting of the German Finance Association (DGF)
• Program Director, HECTOR School of Engineering and Management: Master Program in Financial Engineering 2004–2021

Third-Party Funding

• Spokesperson, DFG Research Group FOR 5230 “Financial Markets and Frictions” (since 2022)
• DFG Projects (Individual Research Grants):
  • Cryptocurrency valuations (2020–2023, with Erik Theissen)
  • Effects of market frictions on option prices (2016–2020, with Olaf Korn)
  • Macroeconomic determinants of the term structure of illiquidity premia (2013–2020, second phase with Philipp Schuster)
  • Default dependencies (2007–2009)
• FIRM Research Grant: 2016–2019
• Principal Investigator, DFG Research Training Group RTG 895 “Information Management and Market Engineering”: 2004–2013

Awards and Distinctions

• Faculty Teaching Awards, KIT: 2009 and 2025
• FIRM Research Award: 2016 (with Philipp Schuster)
• Best Paper Awards, including:
  • Energy & Finance Conference (2013)
  • German Finance Association (2011)
  • Chicago Board of Trade Award, Western Finance Association (1998)
  • Award for Practical Potential, Q-Group & INQUIRE (1997)
• Dissertation Award, Stadtsparkasse Mannheim
• Numerous awards for supervised research and student works, including:
  • Sparkassen-Environment-Prize
  • Study Award of the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation
  • BAI Science Award of the Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V.
  • Research Award of the Swiss Derivative Awards
  • Science Award of the KIT Department of Economics and Management
  • Postbank Finance Award