The CAU’s University Board is complete

The office of Vice President for studying & teaching as well as continuing professional development is to be represented by Professor Dr Markus Hundt. The 55 year-old specialist in German studies studied at the universities of Tübingen and Freiburg im Breisgau, where first he passed the “Staatsexamen Lehramt an Gymnasien” (state examination in studies in secondary education) and then the “Magisterexamen” (Magister degree examination). In 1994, he was awarded the Hermann Paul Prize from the University of Freiburg for his doctoral degree on “Modellbildung in der Wirtschaftssprache” (modelling in economic terms). He then took up a teaching position in Freiburg and became a research assistant at Technische Universität Dresden. In 1999, he completed his habilitation in the specialist field of “Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft” (German linguistics), was granted authorisation to teach as a university lecturer and took up deputy professorships at Technische Universität Chemnitz, at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder and finally, in 2006, at Kiel University. On 1 October 2006, he was appointed Professor of German Philology / German Linguistics at the Institute of German Studies at Kiel University. He took on an active role in academic self-governance and teaching organisation at Kiel University. For several years he was, among other things, a member of the Study Committee at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and on the Central Committee for Teacher Training at Kiel University. In addition, since 2008, he has worked as a liaison lecturer of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), Germany’s oldest provider of scholarships for outstanding students. From 2010 to 2014, Markus Hundt was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Kiel University and, from 2016 to 2020, deputy member of the University Senate.

Hundt plans to actively incorporate his wide-ranging experiences into his role as Vice President: “Along with research, academic teaching forms the core of what constitutes a university. It is therefore important to regard research and teaching as interconnected areas looking for answers to current social issues and problems. As a contribution to this, I would like to strengthen, expand and enhance the areas of studying, teaching and continuing professional development.”

The office of Vice President for research, transfer, scientific infrastructure, digitalisation is to be represented by Professor Dr-Ing. Eckhard Quandt (60). His appointment marks the first time the fields of digitalisation and scientific infrastructure are to be embodied by a Vice President. In 1979, Quandt began studying at Kiel University and, in 1980, switched to a physics degree at Technische Universität Berlin, where he completed his doctoral degree in 1990. In 2000, he completed his habilitation in materials science at Universität Karlsruhe. After his doctoral degree, he worked in materials science at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center) until 1999 and at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar) in Bonn until 2007. In December 2006, he was offered the W3 professorship for inorganic functional materials at the Faculty of Engineering at Kiel University. At the CAU, from 2009 to 2012, he was spokesperson of the priority research area “Nano Science and Surface Research”, from 2010 to 2014, he was spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 855 “Magnetoelectric Composites” and, from 2010 to 2012, member of the University Senate at Kiel University. From 2012 to 2014, he was firstly Vice Dean and then, from 2014 to 2016, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Since 2016 he has been spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1261 “Magnetoelectronic Sensors”. In 2016, he received personal funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a five-year Reinhart Koselleck project to research ceramic shape memory materials. In 2018, together with the start-up Acquandas GmbH, he was awarded 1st prize for the Petersen Innovation Transfer Award for an “innovative technology platform for new bioelectronic and microtechnological medical technology products”. He was a member of the "Materials Science" review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for two terms of office and is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

On his election as Vice President of Kiel University, Quandt said: “Innovations that are achieved through excellent research at universities are a crucial foundation of successful solutions for major social issues. As a result of this, in my future position, I am very much looking forward to being able to provide stimulus for this and helping to create the best possible conditions for successful research and transfer into applications as well as into society.”