Renowned sociologist new to the supervisory board of TUM
Heather Hofmeister appointed to Board of Trustees
US-born Heather Hofmeister received her doctorate from Cornell University in the United States in 2002 and subsequently worked at the Universities of Bamberg and Bielefeld. In 2007 she was appointed by RWTH Aachen University as Professor of Sociology with specialties in Gender and Life Course Research. From 2008 to 2011, she became the first woman in the university' s Rectorate to be Vice Rector for Human Resources Management and Development. Since 2011 she holds a professorship in Sociology of Work at the Goethe University Frankfurt and is co-director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations. Heather Hofmeister is already associated with the TUM as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study.
The other external members of the TUM Board of Trustees are:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Wiestler
President of the Helmholtz Association - Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Barner
Member of the Shareholders' Committee C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG - Dr. Wolfgang Büchele
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Exyte AG - Joe Kaeser
President and CEO Siemens AG - Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller
President and Chair of the Management Board Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG - Dipl.-Ing. Harald Krüger
CEO BMW AG - Barbara Stamm
President of the Bavarian State Parliament, ret. - Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann
President of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Ulrich Wilhelm
General Director of Bavarian Broadcasting
Technical University of Munich
Corporate Communications Center
- Andreas Schmidt
- a.schmidt@tum.de
- presse@tum.de
- Teamwebsite
