In its public session, held on December 12, 2018, the senate at the University of Stuttgart elected two Vice Rectors for the first half of the third rectorate tenure, under the leadership of University Rector Prof. Wolfram Ressel.
The new Vice Rector for Research is Prof. Jan Knippers, Head of the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), while the new Vice Rector for Junior Academic Staff and Diversity is Prof. Monilola Olayioye from the Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology (IZI). The new members of the rectorate team were voted in unanimously and their term in office runs until September 30, 2021.
Prof. Jan Knippers
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Born |
1962 in Düsseldorf |
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1983 – 1989 |
Studied Construction Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, MSc with distinction |
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1992 |
PhD in Structural Analysis at the Technical University of Berlin (doctoral scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation) |
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1993 – 2000 |
Worked at Schlaich Bergermann partner engineering firm, Stuttgart |
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1999 |
Declined appointment as C3 Professor of Steel and Timber Construction at the University of Leipzig |
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seit 2000 |
C4 Professor and Head of the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design at the University of Stuttgart, Faculty for Architecture and Urban Planning |
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2001 – 2018 |
Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering; Stuttgart, Berlin, New York |
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2013 – 2019 |
Chairman of DFG Review Board 410 “Architecture and Construction” |
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2014 – 2019 |
Speaker at the transregional Special Research Area SFB-TR 141 “Biological Design and Integrative Structures” at the universities of Stuttgart, Freiburg and Tübingen |
Prof. Monilola Olayioye
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Born |
1972 in London |
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1996 |
Studied Biotechnology at the Technical University of Braunschweig |
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1997 – 2000 |
PhD in cell biology (summa cum laude), Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland |
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2000 – 12/2003 |
Postdoctoral studies (Embo Fellow) at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, Australien |
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07/2003-09/2003 |
Visiting scientist (HFSP Fellow) at the Cell Biophysics Lab at the Humboldt University |
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03/2004-08/2004 |
Research scientist at the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Ulm |
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09/2004-06/2011 |
Group Leader of the DFG CRC495 Junior Research Group at the Institute for Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Stuttgart |
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07/2011-06/2016 |
Heisenberg Professor (W3) for Molecular Tumor Cell Biology at the University of Stuttgart |
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seit 07/2016 |
W3 Professor for Molecular Tumor Cell Biology at the University of Stuttgart |
