Change on the TUM Executive Board
Prof. Pascal Berberat is the new Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs
In brief
- Responsible for more than 52,000 students
- Surgeon and education researcher joins the university’s leadership team
- Heartfelt thanks to his predecessor for his “boundless commitment”
Berberat studied medicine in Bern (Switzerland) and Los Angeles (USA) and completed his surgical training in Bern, Boston (USA) and Heidelberg. In 2007, he earned his habilitation (postdoctoral teaching qualification) in Heidelberg before moving to the surgery department at TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar as a senior physician.
After completing a further degree in Medical Education (Heidelberg), he has headed the TUM Medical Education Center since 2010. In 2015, he accepted the appointment to the newly established Professorship of Medical Education, Curriculum Development and Educational Research. Since 2017, he has also served as Vice Dean Academic and Student Affairs of the TUM School of Medicine and Health and as spokesperson for all Deans of Studies on TUM’s Extended Executive Board.
Thanks and congratulations
President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann congratulated his new colleague on the Executive Board: “My congratulations on this election go not only to Pascal Berberat, but to all of TUM. We could not have made a better choice to succeed our highly accomplished colleague Gerhard Müller. I am confident that Pascal Berberat will seize, with vision and wisdom, the enormous opportunities that are opening up for TUM in academic and student affairs at a time when artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly.”
Gerhard Müller had held the office since 2014, serving four terms. President Hofmann emphasized: “With forward-looking approaches, a heart for students’ concerns and remarkable warmth and approachability, Gerhard Müller, as Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, has ushered TUM into a new era. Examples include the creation of a Teaching Constitution, forward-looking teaching reforms such as the introduction of Professional Profiles, project weeks and plug-in modules, the further development of the TUM: Junge Akademie, and the establishment of the EuroTeQ Engineering University. On behalf of the entire university community, I thank Gerhard Müller for his boundless commitment, which has made TUM a true magnet for ambitious young people.”
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