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On July 1, 2006, Prof. Dr. Joachim Treusch will assume the presidency of IUB. The renowned science manager and physicist, at present still chairman of the board of directors of the Research Center Jülich until September 30, succeeds Dr. Fritz Schaumann, first president of the young private university and main architect of its dynamic development since its founding in 1999. Treusch’s initial term as IUB president is for five years.
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“My successor, Joachim Treusch, is a foremost authority on the science and research landscape in Germany, with excellent contacts, impressive successes in research management, and a decades-long commitment to education and knowledge transfer,” commented IUB founding president
Fritz Schaumann on the occasion of his stepping down as IUB president. “I am pleased that we were able to gain Joachim Treusch for IUB and am convinced that he will carry on with the greatest competence in shepherding IUB’s continuing growth in this period following the university’s initial phase of development.” Schaumann, elected president of the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia in March 2006, steps down July 1 after more than seven years at IUB.
Joachim Treusch, a member of the IUB Board of Governors since January 2003, responded: “IUB is an outstanding contribution to the modernization and internationalization of higher education in Europe and is unique in Germany. With respect to IUB’s successful and dynamic development, I can only congratulate my predecessor, Fritz Schaumann. I am very much looking forward to my task to carry on and further develop this exciting project. One important aspect of my work will be to promote the intensive scientific and business networking of IUB in Germany as well as internationally. At the same time we will place an even greater emphasis on research and strengthen our research profile in those areas in which we are able to deliver long-term outstanding performance on an international basis.”
Treusch, borne in Dortmund (1940), enjoys an international reputation and is one of the pre-eminent driving forces behind research development in Germany. He assumes his new duties at IUB after more than 40 years in research, teaching, and science management. He studied physics in Marburg and Berlin; following completion of his habilitation in Marburg, in 1970 he was appointed professor at the University of Frankfurt. From 1971 to 1987 the expert on semiconductor physics held a position as full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Dortmund, where he also served as dean, deputy vice-chancellor, and as a member of the university senate. He subsequently served for almost 20 years on the Board of Directors of the Research Center Jülich, and was appointed chairman in 1990. His responsibilities included the divisions “Basic Physical Research and Information Technology” and “Environment and Life Sciences.”
Treusch is the author of more than 250 publications, articles, and lectures, and was editor or co-editor of several physics journals. In the past decades, Treusch has been active in numerous scientific and research steering committees, among others as president of the German Physical Society, chairman of the board of directors of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers, member and chairman of various federal expert advisory councils for education and research, including the Federal Chancellor's Technology Council, and more. He has been a senate member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2000, as well as being director and co-founder of “Science in Dialogue” (WiD), an initiative by leading German science organizations and institutions dedicated to public dialogue and Public Understanding of Sciences and Humanities (PUSH). He will leave WiD in October 2006 after two terms of office.
Fritz Schaumann, recognized expert and political leader in education (born in 1946), took up his post as founding president of IUB in February 1999 following his appointment as managing director by the IUB planning committee at the end of 1998. He previously served for more than ten years, from 1988 to 1998, as State Secretary of the Federal Minister of Education and Research and in this function represented the Federal Government in numerous national and international commissions. Schaumann, whose academic background is educational and organizational psychology, was active from 1972 to 1985 as a researcher and later as director of studies in the College of Education at the University of Dortmund. Beginning in 1985, he served for three years as a member of the state parliament in North Rhine−Westphalia and as parliamentary chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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