A good university culture with mutual appreciation and respect is important to us.
From my election speech came the following motto for my term of office:
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terms of office
April 01, 2016 - March 31, 2022
April 01, 2022 - March 31, 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 board of directors of the Research Campus of Central Hessen
- Chairman of the Advisory Board of TransMIT GmbH
- Chairman of the board of trustees for Studium Plus
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Applied Research, Innovation and Transfer (fit)
curriculum vitae
Personal:
- Married
- 2 children
Training:
- 1983 - A-levels at the Staatl. Gymnasium a.d. Stadtmauer of Bad Kreuznach
- 1989 - Diploma in Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg/FH Heilbronn
- 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
Community service in the DRK blood donation service in Bad Kreuznach, software development - 1986 - 1989
Freelancer in the Office for Health and Social Economics in 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 data processing at the management consultancy Heyde + Partner, Bad Nauheim, software development, project management - 1993 - 1994
Consultant at Softlab GmbH, Munich, system analysis, technical concept development, project management - 1995 - 2002
Employee at Oracle Deutschland GmbH in various management positions, including director of the business unit Application Server/Tools and member of the executive board - since 2003
Professor at the Gießen-Friedberg University of Applied Sciences (today THM) - since 2003
Head of the TransMIT center for web-based software projects - 2008 - 2010
Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Dual University Studies - 2011 - 2016
Managing director of the Center for Dual University Studies
Miscellaneous:
- 2005 - 2010
Member of the SRAT MND Department , as well as other Department of Semien - 2007 - 2016
Member of the Senate of the FH Giessen-Friedberg (today 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 Further education, Bad Nauheim - Since 2022
Member of the university/business working group of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the German Rectors' Conference (HRK)