Senate of Universität Karlsruhe

Structures, members, and responsibilities

The members of the Senate are until September 9th 2010

ex officio:	the President	Prof. Dr. sc. tech. Horst Hippler
	the Vice-Presidents
	Vice-President of Studies and Teaching	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Becker Institute of Information Processing Technology (Head of the institute)
	Vice-President of Organization	Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Norbert Henze Institute of Mathematical Stochastics (Head of the institute)
	Vice-President of Research	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Löhe Institute of Material Science and Engineering (Head of the institute)
	Member of the president office Member of the president office	Prof. Dr. Eberhard Umbach Dr. Alexander Kurz

	Commissary for equalisation	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jivka Ovtcharova
	the Deans	Prof. Dr. Frank Herrlich Faculty of Mathematics
		Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Heinz Kalt Faculty of Physics
		Prof. Dr. Stefan Bräse Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences
		Prof. Dr. Klaus Bös Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
		Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Markus Neppl Faculty of Architecture
		Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz Nestmann Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences
		Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Gabi Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
		Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herrmann Nirschl Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
		Prof. Dr. Gert F. Trommer Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
		Prof. Dr. Heinz Wörn Faculty of Computer Sciences
		Prof. Dr. Clemens Puppe Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering

elected members:	8 professors´represenatives including the university instructors	Prof. Dr. Götz Alefeld Faculty of Mathematics
		Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ellen Ivers-Tiffée Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
		Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Friedrich Jondral Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
		Prof. Dr.rer.nat Ulrich Lemmer Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
		Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Hartmut Schmeck Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering
		Prof. Dr.-rer.nat. Dorothea Wagner Faculty of Computer Sciences
		Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Doris Wedlich Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences
		Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener Faculty of Physics

	4 representatives of academic staff	Dr.-Ing. Tobias Bleninger Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences
		Dr.-Ing. Klaus Dullenkopf Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
		Dr. Bernhard Klar Faculty of Mathematics
		Dipl.-Inform. Jutta Mülle Faculty of Computer Sciences

	4 student representatives	Andreas Kosmider Faculty of Physics
		Nadja Brachmann Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
		Anna Bogutzki Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
		Dominik Richter Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

	4 employees´representatives in administration and technology	Sabine Berker Beauftragte für Chancengleichheit
		Isabelle Hornik Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
		Gisela Nelles Faculty of Architecture
	4 representatives of scientific-technical council of the Research Centre Karlsruhe	Agnese Zanin-Herth Faculty of Civil Engineering, Geo- and Environmental Sciences Prof. Dr. Oliver Kraft Prof. Dr. Manfred Thumm Dr. Thomas Reddmann Barbara Emmerich

The Senate's specific responsibilities include:

1.	Acknowledgment of the election of the President and the Chancellor,
2.	Electing the Vice-Presidents,
3.	Making statements on structural and developmental plans,
4.	Making comments on concepts of budget estimate or budget,
5.	Making comments on conclusion of university contracts and target agreements,
6.	Making comments on descriptions of a professorship,
7.	Making decisions about creating, eliminating and changing degree programs and consideration of reform
	measures, institutions of the university, sections,
8.	Making decisions in determining admission numbers,
9.	Making decisions about examination regulations,
10.	Establishing policies for admission procedures, matriculation, re-registration, leaves of absence and exmatriculation,
11.	Making decisions of fundamental importance in questions of research an supporting/funding younger academics as well
	as technology transfer,
12.	Making decisions about basic policy,
13.	Elaborating upon the President’s annual report,
14.	Elaborating upon the women’s representatives’s annual report.

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