Lecturer of the Year: Nicole F. Richter

The title of 2025 Lecturer of the Year is awarded to Professor Nicole F. Richter from the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences.

Nicole's teaching areas include international business strategy, cross-cultural management and research methods.

She promotes students' critical thinking, engagement and academic achievement through well-designed and successful teaching programmes. Her teaching centres on students' independent work and supports their learning processes, ensuring they are challenged and experience academic relevance and strong motivation.

Students describe Nicole as an inspiring facilitator who creates a safe, engaging and challenging learning environment. She supports students' confidence in mastery through encouragement, help and good course materials (such as cases).

Didactically innovative, Nicole makes strong contributions to teaching and educational development locally and internationally. She systematically develops and quality assures her own teaching, incorporating relevant research literature, up-to-date cases and new technological solutions