It is now official: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer was officially appointed as the new President of Paderborn University on Monday, 24 March. The certificate was presented by Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Düsseldorf in the presence of University Council Chairman Prof Dr Jürgen Brautmeier and Senate Spokesperson Prof Dr Merle Tönnies. "I am looking forward to a very good and trusting collaboration," said Brandes.
In November last year, the university electoral assembly voted unanimously in favour of Prof. Bauer, who will start his six-year term of office on 1 April and form the new Executive Board together with Prof. Dr. Beate Flath, Prof. Dr. René Fahr, Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann, Prof. Dr. Thomas Tröster and Simone Probst.
Beate Flath is Professor of Event Management with a focus on pop music cultures and digital media cultures and Managing Director of the research centre "C:POP.Transdisciplinary Research Center for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies". René Fahr, who is already Vice President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the current Executive Board, holds the professorship for "Business Administration and Economics, in particular Corporate Governance" at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. Heike Trautmann is Professor of Machine Learning and Optimisation, Thomas Tröster heads the Chair of Lightweight Automotive Design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and is the initiator of the New Mobility Paderborn (NeMo) initiative.
Matthias Bauer has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Paderborn University since 2013. He previously held a Carl Zeiss endowed professorship at the TU Kaiserslautern and was responsible for the field of "Modern Spectroscopic Methods" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Previous positions had taken the scientist to the University of Stuttgart and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France. He completed his doctorate with honours at the University of Stuttgart. Prof Bauer is a member of numerous scientific committees and communities, which also contributes to Paderborn University's excellent academic network. Since 2020, he has also been an elected member of a review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG), which is involved in the review of funding proposals as well as the design and further development of the DFG's funding programmes in his field of research.
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