A good university culture with mutual appreciation and respect is important to us.
The following motto for my term of office comes from my election speech:
ESPRIT 1628
Successwith funand enthusiasm, professionally, with respectand appreciation, innovativelyand team-oriented from2016 to2028
Terms of office
01 April 2016 - 31 March 2022
01 April 2022 - 31 March 2028
Responsibilities
- Strategic university development
- External representation of the university
- Senate
- Marketing and Events
- Appreciative university culture
- Equality and diversity
- Intercultural opening
- International Office
- Alumni
- Member of the Directorate of the Research Campus of Central Hessen
- Chairman of the Advisory Board of TransMIT GmbH
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees Studium Plus
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Applied Research, Innovation and Transfer (fit)
CV
Personal:
- Married
- 2 children
Education:
- 1983 - A-levels at the State Gymnasium ad Stadtmauer Bad Kreuznach
- 1989 - Diploma in Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg/Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences
- 1991 - Graduate Certificate in Epidemiology University of Ulm/University of North Carolina
- 1991 - Doctorate in Medical Informatics (Dr. rer. biol. hum.)
- 2002 - Post Graduate Certificate in International Business, University of Edinburgh
- 2002 - Executive MBA Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris
Professional activities:
- 1983 - 1984
Civil service at the German Red Cross blood donation service in Bad Kreuznach, software development - 1986 - 1989
Freelance employee at the Office for Health and Social Economics Weinsberg: System analysis, software development - 1989 - 1991
Lecturer at the School for Medical Documentation Ulm, Data Processing, Medical Documentation - 1991 - 1993
Consultant for organization and IT at the management consultancy Heyde + Partner, Bad Nauheim; software development; project management - 1993 - 1994
Consultant at Softlab GmbH, Munich, systems analysis, concept development, project management - 1995 - 2002
Employees of Oracle Germany GmbH in various management positions, including Director of the Business Unit Application Server/Tools and member of the management board - since 2003
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg (now THM) - since 2003
Head of the TransMIT Center for Web-based Software Projects - 2008 - 2010
Directorate member, Center for Dual Studies - 2011 - 2016
Managing Director Center for Dual Studies
Miscellaneous:
- 2005 - 2010
Member of the Department Council MND, as well as other Department committees - 2007 - 2016
Member of the Senate of the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg (now THM) - since 2018
Member of the joint board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, WG Kerckhoff Institute and the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation for Scientific Research and FurtherEducation, Bad Nauheim, - since 2022
Member of the Higher Education/Business Working Group of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the German Rectors' Conference (HRK)