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EMAC-Enginius Doctoral Competition Winners

Winners of the EMAC-Enginius Doctoral Competition, celebrating outstanding doctoral research and promising scholars in marketing.

Winners archive

This page presents the winners of the EMAC-Enginius Doctoral Competition from 2023 onward, with the most recent edition highlighted first.

2026

2026 Winners

Maja Fors
1st place

Maja Fors

Stockholm School of Economics

Ph.D. @ Stockholm School of Economics

Paper: When Nudges Backfire: The Role of Goal Congruence

Elena Bocchi
2nd place

Elena Bocchi

NEOMA Business School

Ph.D. @ University of London

Paper: Embedded Inefficiency in Recycling System Design

Julia Lenk
3rd place

Julia Lenk

University of Hamburg

Ph.D. @ University of Hamburg

Paper: How Mrktg. Comm. and Megatrends Influence SDGs

2025

2025 Winners

1st place

Gilian Ponte

Institution: Erasmus University

Paper: Differential Privacy and Marketing Analytics

2nd place

Sanghwa Kim

Institution: McMaster University

Paper: The impact of Air Pollution on Consumer Spending

3rd place

Jana Holthöwer

Institution: University of Groningen

Paper: Robots do not judge

2024

2024 Winners

1st place

David Finken

Institution: ETH Zurich

Paper: Augmented Reality

2nd place

Yufei Shen

Institution: Nova School of Business & Economics

Paper: Cookies & news consumption

3rd place

Maximilian Beichert

Institution: HEC Paris

Paper: Influencer Marketing

2023

2023 Winner

1st place

Martin Reisenbichler

Institution: WU Vienna University

Paper: SEO and SEA using machine-learning-generated content