Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Areas of responsibility

  • Strategic planning for academic affairs
  • Digitalization in academic affairs
  • Student Center (Admin Dept. 5)
  • Campus management
  • Center for University Didactics (ZHD)
  • Quality management for this section

Biography

1961 

Born in Kassel, Germany, July 8

Oct. 1982 – Jan. 1989

Student of civil engineering at the University of Kassel
Degrees obtained: 
Diplom I (Dipl.-Ing.), 1987
Diplom II (Dipl.-Ing.), 1989

Feb. 1989 – Nov. 1989

Research assistant for solid construction in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Kassel

Dec. 1989 – Jan. 1994

Research assistant for continuum mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Kassel

Nov. 1993

Doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Kassel

Feb. 1994 – Nov. 1994

Assistant professor for continuum mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Kassel

Nov. 1994 – July 2003

Member of the established TU Clausthal academic staff for continuum mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Kassel

Feb. 2003

Obtained post-doc Habilitation degree in mechanics from the University of Kassel

Aug. 2008 – present

Professor (W3) of solid mechanics at TU Clausthal

May 2018 – present

Member of the Braunschweig learned society BWG

Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2026

Spokesperson for the engineering division of the BWG

May 2022 – Apr. 2024

Spokesperson for the research area Sustainable Materials and Processes at TU Clausthal

1993 – present

Member of GAMM – International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2017

Chair of DEKOMECH, the German Mechanics Committee within GAMM

2010 – present

GAMM representative at TU Clausthal

May 2010 – May 2013

First chair of the Clausthal applied mechanics association CFAM

Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2024

Managing director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics at TU Clausthal

Jan. 2018 – present

Member of the General Assembly of IUTAM, the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

2016 – present

German chair of the German-Greek-Polish Symposium on Recent Advances in Mechanics

Oct. 2024 – present

Vice-President for Academic Affairs at TU Clausthal