Areas of Responsibility: • Research funding matters, together with the UFR rectorate and central university administration • Contact person and communication with faculties, centres and research institutions in all research matters • Participation in university-related, national and international working groups and networks • Project lead Nagoya Protocol and research information system
Areas of Responsibility: • Advising on quality assurance and quality enhancement in doctoral education • Establishing contacts and networking with national and international organisations and with actors of higher education policy (e.g. UniWinD, LERU) • Advising on proposals for doctoral programmes (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources)
Office Hours: Mon and Thu full day Tue, Wed and Fri before noon
Areas of Responsibility: • Counselling • Ombuds assistant and coordination of the central ombuds process for doctoral candidates and supervisors • Advising on proposals for doctoral programmes (Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences)
Areas of Responsibility: • Advising on doctoral process • Advising on funding options (e.g. doctoral scholarships) • GraCe Travel Grants • Conception, coordination and organisation of quality assurance and quality enhancement measures in doctoral education (e.g. Award for excellent supervision at the University of Freiburg) • Conception and implementation of a quality management system in doctoral education • evaluation of quality standards in doctoral education
Office Hours: Mon, Thu and Fri afternoon Tue and Wed before noon
Areas of Responsibility: • Coordinating the digititalisation process for doctoral administration • Strategic and conceptual development for the digititalisation of doctoral administration • Analysis of the actual and theoretical processes for doctoral administration in close coordination with the computing center (URZ) and the faculties • Establishing concepts for quality assurance of data and processes
Areas of Responsibility: • Faculty of Mathematics and Physics • Faculty of Engineering • The Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) • Industrial Collective Research (IGF) • Excellence Strategy 2026-2032: Clusters of Excellence funding line • Selected research awards (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Balzan, Hector, Gerda Henkel, Alfried Krupp, Louis-Jeantet, Landesforschungspreis) • Freiburg Funding Portal
Areas of Responsibility: • Faculty of Philology • Faculty of Philosophy • Faculty of Theology • Postdoctoral Fellowships for Leading Early Career Researchers (Eliteprogramm of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation) • Margarete von Wrangell Junior Professorship Programme (funded by the State Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts) • Selected research awards (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Balzan, Hector, Gerda Henkel, Alfried Krupp, Louis-Jeantet, Landesforschungspreis)
Areas of Responsibility: • Faculty of Chemistry und Pharmacy • Faculty of Biology • Funding programmes of the Carl Zeiss Foundation with focus on Life Sciences (Breakthroughs, NEXUS, Wildcard) • Joint projects with medicine • Selected research awards (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Balzan, Hector, Gerda Henkel, Alfried Krupp, Louis-Jeantet, Landesforschungspreis)
Dr. Björn Goldammer
Economics, Behavioural Sciences, Environment and Natural Resources, Law
Areas of Responsibility: • Faculty of Law • Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources • Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences • Research Innovation Fund • AXA Research Fund • NIH (National Institutes of Health, USA) • DAAD P.R.I.M.E. • Selected research awards (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Balzan, Hector, Gerda Henkel, Alfried Krupp, Louis-Jeantet, Landesforschungspreis)
Areas of Responsibility: • Financial planning and personnel costs calculation for project applications • Support in selection and nomination procedures of selected research awards • Support of assessments within the framework of the Excellence Strategy 2026-2032: Clusters of Excellence funding line • Freiburg Funding Portal maintenance
Areas of responsibility: • Office of the Research Board (RB) • Monitoring of the university research profile; in particular support for funding measures in the area of research management • Office of the Research Infrastructure Board (RIB) • Support of Infrastructure Projects at the university (e.g. research buildings, facilities according to the research infrastructure plan for the entire University, large-scale research equipment) • Coordination office for externally funded professorships (including joint appointments, and endowed professorships) as well as for other cooperation projects in the field of research with non-university research institutions and foundations.
Areas of responsibility: • Monitoring of the university research profile; in particular, supervision of the focus areas and updating of the central research websites • Supporting the implementation of the Excellence Strategy; in particular the Excellence Cluster funding • Clusters of Excellence (CIBSS, livMatS) and Cluster Initiatives • Support and monitoring of administrative processes concerning the implementation, organisational changes and evaluations (monitoring of evaluation procedures) • Support for collaborative initiatives as part of the Excellence Strategy
Responsibilities: • Project management and coordination of the FIS project • Coordination and collaboration with faculties, the central university administration, and the university computer center • Design and implementation of subject-specific and project processes • Quality assurance and further development of research information data • Communication, documentation, and support during system implementation • Representation of the University of Freiburg in supra-regional committees and foundations
Areas of responsibility: • IT- and database administration (in particular Freiburg Funding Portal) • Webmaster FRS-Portal • Administrative coordination of FIS projects
Areas of Responsibility: • Compliance in the context of the utilisation of genetic resources & Nagoya protocol • Development of concepts and management of measures for the university-wide deployment of the Nagoya protocol • Conceptualisation and implementation of workshops and counseling of researchers in the context of the Nagoya protocol • Supporting the coordination of the FIS project
