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University Board of Management

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  5. Vice President for Research and Early-career Scholars

Vice President for Research and Early-career Scholars

Matthias Hoch

The Vice President for Research and Early-career Scholars is:

• Chairman of the Standing Committee on Research and Early-career Scholars

He is responsible for:

• promoting the university’s early-career scholars;
• research funding;
• research transfer;
• matters pertaining to internationalisation in the areas of research and early-career scholars;
• questions concerning equal opportunities in research funding and in the promotion of early-career scholars;
• affairs of the representative officer for issues concerning European research programmes.


Prof. Dr. Martin Friesl

Prof. Dr. Martin Friesl assumed the office of Vice President for Research and Early-career Scholars at the University of Bamberg on October 1, 2026. He has held the Chair for Strategy and Organisation Studies at the university’s faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration since 2019. In addition, he has been involved with the NHH Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen as an adjunct professor since 2021.

In his research, Martin Friesl examines businesses’ central strategic and organisational challenges from a social science perspective. His current research focuses on the conditions and consequences of limited attention in management, participation in strategic decision-making processes and, related to this, effective corporate governance.

After completing a vocational programme in banking and finance and obtaining his university entrance qualification from a Berufsoberschule (upper secondary vocational school), he studied Business Education at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU Munich) from 2000 to 2004. In 2008, he received his doctorate from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich with a dissertation on managing capability development in young companies. Before joining the University of Bamberg, he was Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Assistant / Associate Professor) at the Lancaster University Management School (UK) from 2009 until 2019, ultimately in the position of Chaired Professor in Strategic Management. Martin Friesl has a profound understanding of the international academic landscape gained in his experiences conducting research and teaching in the UK, Austria, Norway, France, Jordan, India and Malaysia.