Biology Departmental Council

The duties of the Departmental Council encompass § 4 paragraph 5 of the Basic Regulations of the University of Hamburg and § 7 paragraphs 8-11 of the Statutes of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences of the University of Hamburg (dated 01.02.2017).

Paragraph 8:
The departments are assigned the following duties (Basic Regulations § 4 paragraph 5):

• Organization of teaching and subject advising,
• Proposals for study and examination regulations,
• Proposals for teaching duties,
• Proposals for the composition of appointment committees.

Members

According to § 7 Departments of the Statutes of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences of the University of Hamburg (dated 01.02.2017):

Department committees shall be composed according to groups are elected in accordance with § 4 para. 2 of the Basic Regulations. The department committee is called the departmental council.

The following voting members belong to the departmental council:

• Seven members from the group of university professors,
• Two members from the group of students,
• Two members from the group of academic staff, and
• Two members from the group of technical, library, and administrative staff.

The Departmental Council consists of elected members of all groups according to § 10 HmbHG within the department.

The term of office for the current departmental council began on 01.10.2020 and ends on 30.09.2022. The students are re-elected after one year and the current representatives will hold office until 01.10.2021.

University Faculty

• Prof. Dr. Christian Lohr
• Prof. Dr. Ina Meier
• Prof. Dr. Christian Möllmann
• Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider
• Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit
• Prof. Dr. Sigrun Reumann
• Prof. Dr. Susanne Dobler (Stellvertretung)
• Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen (Stellvertretung)
• Prof. Dr. Baris Tursun (Stellvertretung)
• Prof. Dr. Bodo Saake (Stellvertretung)

Academic Staff

• Dr. Julia Glos
• Dr. Dirk Warnecke
• Dr. Sabine Lüthje (Stellvertretung)
• Oliver Hallas (Stellvertretung)

Technical and Administrative Staff

• Sigrid Düwel
• Pierre Endries
• Britta Frischke (Stellvertretung)
• René König(Stellvertretung)

Students

• Philipp Dumrese
• Victoria Mader
• Ina Dannecker (Stellvertretung)
• Katja Volkert (Stellvertretung)

Advisory Members

The following members of the department serve on the departmental council in an advisory capacity:

1. the deputy head of the department; if he/she is not already a regular member of the board
2. the officer for curriculum and teaching; if he/she is not already a regular member of the committee
3. the officer for research; if he/she is not already a regular member of the committee
4. the departmental speaker;
5. the director of the student affairs,
6. a staff member from occupational safety,
7. the equal opportunity representative(s) of the department and their deputy(s).

• Susanne Gärtig (Departmental Speaker)
• Dr.  Markus Brändel (Director of Student Affairs)
• Anke Burmester (Occupational Safety)
• Prof. Sigrun Reumann (Equal Opportunity Officer)
• Prof. Elisabeth Magel (Equal Opportunity Officer)
• JunProf. Esther Diekhof (Equal Opportunity Officer)
• Dr. Luisa Listmann (Equal Opportunity Officer)

The Rules of Procedure of the Biology Departmental Council  (PDF) are based on the adopted version of the 12th committee meeting on 15/10/2019 and were adopted by the MIN Faculty Council at its 148th meeting on 05 February 2020.