Marion Ott Takes Up Market Design Professorship in Giessen
PersonnelZEW Economist Marion Ott Appointed Professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen
As of 1 August 2025, Professor Marion Ott has assumed the Chair of Market Design at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU). She will carry out this new role in parallel with her position as deputy head of ZEW Mannheim’s Research Unit “Market Design“. Her research focuses on the design and analysis of markets, with particular emphasis on auctions and on advancing the future design of electricity markets.
“I’m keen to incorporate my research topics from ZEW into my teaching in Giessen and to inspire young people to take an interest in market design and the organisation of auctions. I’m very much looking forward to research collaborations with my new colleagues at JLU in the Economics faculty, for example in the Economics of Global Risk programme there. The Center for International Development and Environmental Research at JLU offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange on achieving climate neutrality and provides new possibilities and perspectives for my research on designing markets for the allocation of scarce resources such as energy and water,” explains Marion Ott.
Renowned scientist
“We are delighted that Marion Ott has accepted the call to Justus Liebig University Giessen. With her expertise in auction and electricity market design, she will provide crucial input into questions concerning the future organisation of the European electricity market. Particularly in view of the energy transition, her research is of central importance, and the transfer of knowledge into teaching is equally vital,” says ZEW President Professor Achim Wambach, PhD.
About Marion Ott
Marion Ott studied Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Karlsruhe, now KIT, where she received her doctorate in 2009. From 2003 to 2008, she was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 504: Rationality concepts, decision behaviour and economic modelling at the University of Mannheim. She moved to RWTH Aachen after a six-month research stay at Stanford University in 2009/10.
Until early 2019, she was a junior professor of game theory and behavioural economics there and also took on a substitute professorship in empirical economic research. In 2013 she returned to Stanford University for a further four-month research visit. Her academic work has been published in renowned journals such as Games and Economic Behaviour, Experimental Economics, Information Systems Research and Energy Economics.
