Members of the Senate

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From left: Prof. Jörn Ostermann, Maximilian Matthias, Prof. Bettina Lindmeier, Prof. Stephan Köster, Jula Kuscha, Dr. Hartmut Lehne, Susana Dänzer Barbosa, Prof. Stefan Schreieder, Katja Bohne, Prof. Stephan Thomsen, Edwina Albrecht, Prof. Hans-Peter Braun, Prof. Monika Sester, Dr. Justin Siefert (Management) - June 2023

The group of university instructors has seven representatives in the Senate, while the other groups each have two. As stated in clause 8 of Leibniz University’s statutes, all the representatives except for the student group were elected in the 2022/23 winter semester for a two-year term (1 April 2023–31 March 2025). In the 2022/23 winter semester, the student representatives were elected for a term from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. The student members will be elected in January 2024 and all members of the Senate will be up for re-election in January 2025. The president is the chairperson. Dr. Siefert manages the Senate’s business.

 

Members with voting rights

University instructors

Deputies

  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Braun (Speaker)
    Institute of Plant Genetics
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Köster
    Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management
  • Prof. Dr. Bettina Lindmeier
    Institute of Special Eduaction
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Ostermann
    Institute of Information Processing
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Schreieder
    Institute of Algebraic Geometry
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Monika Sester
    Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Lothar Thomsen
    Institute of Economic Policy

Representatives

  • Prof. Dr. Lidia Becker
    Romanesque Department
  • Prof. Dr. Hermann Butzer
    Institute of Labor, Business and Social Law
  • Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch
    Institute of Philosophy
  • Prof. Dr. Denis Gebauer
    Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
  • Prof. Dr. Markus Jager
    Institute of  the History and Theory of Architecture
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Johann Lachmayer
    Institute of Product Development and Device Engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Oestreich
    Institute of Solid State Physics
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Rothmann
    History Department
  • Prof. Dr. Axel Haunschild
    Institute of Interdisciplinary Labour Science

Students

Deputies

  • Jula Malin Kuscha
  • Yudhveer Singh Nijjer

Representatives

  • Nils Baum
  • Tabea Herbst

Research assistants

Deputies

  • Edwina Albrecht
    Institute of Education
  • Dr. Florian Leydecker
    Institute of Applied Mathematics

Representatives

  • Dr. Andreas Schneider
    Institute for Inorganic Chemistry

Technical and administrative staff

Deputies

  • Susana Angelica Dänzer Barbosa
    Dean of studies of the Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • Katja Bohne
    Department 1 / Subject area 12

Representatives

  • Dr. Nadja Gabriele Camphie Bieletzki
    LCSS
  • Bodo Steffen
    ZQS

Chairperson and management

Chairperson

Prof. Dr. Volker Epping
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Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
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Management

Dr. Justin Siefert
Management
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Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
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Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
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