Advisory Board
The Advisory Board advises and oversees the University Executive Board according to § 21 Higher Education Act of NRW. As the central governing body, it has to approve certain strategic decisions made by the Executive Board. It further provides statements and expresses recommendations in matters related to research, art, teaching and studying that are of importance to the entire university, central organizational units or of general concern. Furthermore, the Ministry for Culture and Science NRW has delegated some of the responsibility as the highest service authority to the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board of Paderborn University consists of nine members.
Dr. Dagmar Simon
Chair of the Advisory Board,
Managing director of EVACONSULT,
Visiting researcher of the research group "Digital Mobility and Social Differentiation" at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier
Vice-chairman of the Advisory Board,
Vice-president of the Media Council of East-Belgium,
Honorary professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Prof. Dr. Rita Burrichter
Professor of Practical Theology at the Institute of Catholoic Theology of Paderborn University.
Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Göttel
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of BENTELER International AG in Salzburg (Austria).
Dr. Hans-Gerhard Husung
Former State Secretary for Science and Research, Senate Departement for Education, Science and Research, Berlin (2004-2010).
Former Secretary-General of the Joint Science Conference of the Federation and the Federal States (GWK), Bonn (2011-2016).
Dr.-Ing. Steffen Jesinghausen
Senior researcher at the Particle Technology Group (Paderborn University), spokesman of the academic mid-Level staff at Paderborn University.
Prof. Dr. math. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide
Professor of Theoretical Computer Sciences at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Paderborn University, chairmen of the Board of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 901) "On-The-Fly Computing", member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martina Schraudner
Professor for "Gender and Diversity in Technology and Product Development" in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Transportation at the Technical University of Berlin.
Head of the Center for Responsible Research and Innovation of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn
Professor for Integrated Quantum Optics, member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
