Our alumnus Dr Florian Sonnenburg has a degree in economics from the University of Wuppertal. In 2010, he continued his career at the University of Cologne, where he worked at the Department of Finance (Professor Dr Alexander Kempf) at the WiSo Faculty, first as a research assistant and then, after completing his doctorate in 2016, as an academic counsellor. In 2020, he gave up his appointment as civil servant for life and founded the investment boutique Sonnenburg Investments. He expanded the analysis model developed in his thesis, which can be used to systematically identify undervalued quality companies at an attractive price, to successfully invest not only as a private individual but also on behalf of the Applied Science Equity Fund advised by Sonnenberg Investments.
In our alumni interview, we talked to him about his first entrepreneurial steps as a child, the influence of his role model Warren Buffett on his alalysis model, and about the Master's seminar ‘Applied Equity Research’, in which students can win Deutschlandstipendien for their university.
