Four vice presidents support the President in managing the university. They occupy their office in addition to a partially reduced course load.

Prof. Christina Zitzmann

Prof. Christina Zitzmann is

• an official representative of the President
• a voting member of the University Management and the Extended Executive Board
• Chair of the Committee for Academic Affairs
• head of the violence prevention team
• a professor of social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is responsible for the following areas:

• academics (accreditation and quality assurance of degree programmes, system accreditation, curriculum development)
• teaching (Center for Teaching and Learning, "Forschungs- und Innovationslabor Digitale Lehre", educational research competition, Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern (vhb))
• professional development (OHM Professional School, part-time degree programmes for professionals, certificate programmes, and conferences)

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Prof. Tilman Botsch

Prof. Tilman Botsch is

• an official representative of the President
• a voting member of the University Management and the Extended Executive Board
• Chair of the Committee for Research and Development
• a professor of heat and mass transfer and fluid mechanics in the Faculty of Process Engineering

The Vice President for Transfer is responsible for the following areas:

• research and technology transfer
• reinforcing the university’s strength in third-party funds

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Prof. Areti Papastavrou

Prof. Areti Papastavrou is

• an official representative of the President
• a voting member of the University Management and the Extended Executive Board
• Chair of the Committee for Research and Development
• a professor in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Building Services Engineering

The Vice President for Research is responsible for the following areas:

• promoting internal research
• establishing and development of the university’s institutes and competence centers

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Prof. Frank Pöhlau

• an official representative of the President
• a voting member of the University Management and the Extended Executive Board
• Chair of the Committee for International Relations
• a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Precision Engineering, Information Technology.

 

The Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity is responsible for the following areas:

• implementation and development of the internationalisation and diversity strategies
• international collaboration in higher education
• academic supervision of the International Office
• head of International Academic Services

Senior Advisor to the Vice President for International Affairs

Sustainability Manager and Consultant for Diversity

Office of the Vice Presidents