OFF TO GERMANY: IEOR Ph.D. candidate Justin Tumlinson is the first Berkeley engineer to be awarded the German Chancelor’s Scholarship, the German equivalent of the Rhodes.

IEOR grad student wins German equivalent of prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Chancellor Kohl, then head of a unified Germany, wanted to engage American leaders in the same way England’s Rhodes Scholarship did. Thirteen years ago, he initiated the German Chancellor Scholarship to bring bright American scholars to study in Germany, thus creating grassroot links between the two nations.

IEOR Ph.D. candidate Justin Tumlinson, selected as one of the 10 scholars from hundreds of applicants, will receive the competitive award worth over $50,000 this year. He is only the second engineer and the first Berkeley engineer ever to do so.

Tumlinson is interested in applying IEOR tools to the public policy and investment policy space. Next year in Germany he will study the German government’s investment incentive policy and spend time with German venture capital firms.

Strengthening U.S. - German ties will remain an important career goal as Tumlinson aspires to a joint appointment as an IEOR/public policy professor in the U.S.

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