The new Executive Board of Paderborn University is complete: Following the election of Prof Dr Matthias Bauer as President-designate last year, the non-full-time Vice Presidents have now also been appointed. They were elected today, Friday 31 January, by the University Election Assembly and will start their six-year term of office together with Prof. Bauer on 1 April. From spring, the new Executive Board will include Prof. Dr Beate Flath as Vice President for Studies, Teaching and Quality Management, Prof. Dr René Fahr as Vice President for Transfer and Sustainability, Prof. Dr Heike Trautmann as Vice President for International Relations and Prof. Dr Thomas Tr?ster as Vice President for Research and Academic Career Paths. Simone Probst, full-time Vice President for Business and Personnel Administration, will remain in office.
The candidates proposed by Matthias Bauer presented themselves to the university public in a hearing. Prof Dr Jürgen Brautmeier, Chair of the University Electoral Assembly, commented: "All members of the new Executive Board are characterised by their expertise and in-depth knowledge of Paderborn University. I am very much looking forward to working with them."
Beate Flath is Professor of Event Management with a focus on pop music cultures and digital media cultures as well as 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 Tr?ster heads the Chair of Lightweight Automotive Design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and is the initiator of the New Mobility Paderborn (NeMo) initiative.
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