TU Dresden's extended senate re-elected on 13 May 2015 Professor Hans Müller-Steinhagen as rector for the 2015 - 2020 term. His second term will begin on 18 August 2015.

Whilst development at the TU Dresden was essentially focused on scientific aspects in the last few years, not least thanks to the Excellence Initiative of the German Federation and the Federal States, Professor Müller-Steinhagen has named clearly enhancing teaching as one of the priority tasks for his second term in office. This particularly includes teaching organisation. He considers other important goals to be developing the TUD as a comprehensive university, improving the employment relationship for mid-level academics, further internationalisation and successful application to the next round of the Excellence Initiative. Müller-Steinhagen is also aiming to strengthen TU Dresden's corporate identity. "I hope that all members of the university are proud to be a part of this university, that we all pull together so that the TUD continues to develop its different facets as ONE university. This shared spirit was the recipe to our success when applying as a University of Excellence and I hope that in future it will also be the hallmark of the TU Dresden!"    

In coordination with the TUD senate, the university council proposed two candidates for election to the extended senate. The chair of the university council, Gunda Röstel, emphasised the deep respect for the work that Professor Müller-Steinhagen has achieved thus far: “We are pleased that Professor Müller-Steinhagen is undertaking a second term in office with the backing of the university council, the senate and the extended senate. He is the first choice for continued success, scientific excellence, good teaching and for representing one of the most important universities in Germany.”

Professor Hans Müller Steinhagen (61) graduated in 1980 with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. Four years later, he gained his doctorate there in process engineering. In 1999, he qualified as a university lecturer in the area of applied thermodynamics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Afterwards, he worked for a total of 17 years in foreign universities. He was director of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering at the University of Stuttgart from 2000 to 2010 and director of the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). He has an honorary doctorate from the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic and Dankook University in South Korea. Furthermore, he is the chair of the State Rectors' Conference in Saxony (LRK). In 2014, he was chosen as University Manager of the Year by CHE and the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT.

Photo (Wahl des Rektors Prof. Hans Müller-Steinhagen (M.) am 13.5.2015. Links Wahlleiter Prof. Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, rechts der Stellv. Vorsitzende des Hochschulrats, Prof. Klaus Raps, Foto: TUD/Karsten Eckold)

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