Awards, Prizes & Scholarships

Recognition of Academic Excellence and Achievement

Recent Awards (2024-2026)

🏆 Best Presentation Award
1st Magdeburg Braunschweig Economics Workshop (MAD BREW) | November 2025
Paper: "Hate Knows No Borders: The Spillover Effect of the Christchurch Terror Attack to Germany"
🏆 Best Paper Award
Faculty Research Seminar | Winter Semester 2024-25
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Paper: "The Refugee Wave's Long Shadow: Crimes against Non-Refugee Foreigners"
🏆 Teaching Award
Macroeconomics Course (Bachelor Level) | Winter Semester 2025-26
Rating: 95% | Ranked 2nd in Faculty
🏆 Teaching Award
Statistical Methods III Course (Bachelor Level) | Summer Semester 2025
Rating: 92.8% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
🌍 Nomination for EEA Teaching Award
European Economic Association | May 2025
Nominated by the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management for outstanding contribution to teaching in Economics

Teaching Awards (2021-2024)

Evidence-Based Policy Analysis (Master Level)
Summer Semester 2024
Rating: 97.5% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
Introduction to Econometrics (Bachelor Level)
Summer Semester 2024
Rating: 95.2% | Ranked 3rd in Faculty
Macroeconomics (Bachelor Level)
Winter Semester 2023-24
Rating: 95% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
Introduction to Econometrics (Bachelor Level)
Summer Semester 2023
Rating: 98.4% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
Macroeconomics (Bachelor Level)
Winter Semester 2022-23
Rating: 93.1% | Ranked 2nd in Faculty
Introduction to Econometrics II (Bachelor Level)
Winter Semester 2021-22
Rating: 98.4% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
Introduction to Econometrics (Bachelor Level)
Summer Semester 2021
Rating: 94.8% | Ranked 1st in Faculty
OVGU Teaching Award Nominations
2021, 2024
Nominated twice for excellence in teaching

Research Support & Scholarships

DFG Research Grant
German Research Foundation | 2017-2020
Special grant awarded as refugee researcher for the project "Germany and the 2015 Refugee Crisis"
Global Campus Alumni Upskilling Programme
Global Campus Alumni | February-March 2026
Masaryk University Summer School Scholarship
"Faking data (in a good way): Size, Power, and the Replication Crisis" | May 2025
BeNA Skills Camp Scholarship
"ChatGPT for Economic Research" | October 2024
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Ifo Institute Scholarship
"Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Evaluation" | November 2023
Dresden, Germany
Integration-CAN-D Summer School Scholarship
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | September 2019
Munich, Germany
Science4Refugee Conference Scholarship
European Commission | March 2017
Brussels, Belgium
Transparency International Scholarship
"School on Integrity" | July 2014
Vilnius, Lithuania
Venice Academy of Human Rights Scholarship
EIUC | July 2015
Venice, Italy
Venice School of Human Rights Scholarship
EIUC | June-July 2015
Venice, Italy
Professional Master's Scholarship
Ca' Foscari University Venice | 2015
Full scholarship for Professional Master in Democratic Governance
Turkish Government Scholarship (Türkiye Bursları)
Marmara University, Istanbul | 2013-2015
Scholarship for doctoral studies in Economics

Academic & Contest Awards

Basel Certificate of Scholastic Excellence
Aleppo University | 2006
2nd top student in the Faculty of Economics in the third year
2nd Prize - Japanese Speech Contest
Damascus University | November 2009
Central Syrian Universities Chess Tournament
1st Place | 2004
Aleppo University Chess Tournament
1st Place (3 times), 2nd Place (1 time) | 2004-2010
Vellmarer Schachtage Chess Tournament
2nd Place, B-Group | July 2017
Vellmar, Germany (Semi-professional competition)

Professional Training & Certifications

Management and Development of Individuals
American Board of Academic Accreditation | March 2014
Certified Consultant | Istanbul, Turkey
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
International NLP Trainers Association | July 2007
Diploma | Aleppo, Syria
Science of Invention and Development
Aleppo University | July-October 2005
Diploma | Summer School
Advanced Econometrics
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) | October 2018 - February 2019
Migration and Local Labor Markets Course
Otto von Guericke University | March 2022
Cybersecurity Basics Program
Kaspersky Online Course | February 2022

Official Recognition & Awards

My research and teaching excellence have been recognized by Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. For complete details, visit the official university pages:

🏆 Research Awards 🎓 Teaching Awards

Throughout my academic career, I have been recognized for: