Members of the Rectorate
Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel

Rector
Domstraße 11, Entrance 2
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 1100
rektorin@uni-greifswald.de
Rector's Office
Since April 2021 | Rector of the University of Greifswald |
Since 2020 | Provisional Founding Director Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research Greifswald |
2016-2017 | Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
Since 2013 | Managing Director of the Institute of Microbiology |
2011-2013 | Vice-Director of the Institute of Microbiology |
Since 2011 | Chair of Microbiology at the University of Greifswald |
2010-2011 | Professorship at the University of Braunschweig |
2006 | Habilitation on the topic of ‘Global gene regulation in gram-negative bacteria: proteomics to investigate quorum sensing-regulated and surface-induced phenotypes’ |
2000-2006 | Head of the research group ‘Bacterial Proteomics’ in Munich and Zurich |
1999-2000 | Postdoc research at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby |
1994-1998 | Doctorate at the Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Munich |
1988-1994 | Study of Biology at the Technical University of Munich |
Prof. Dr. Konstanze Marx

Pro-Rector (Responsible for Communication,Human Resources Development and Equal Opportunities)
Domstraße 11, Entrance 2
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 1101
prorektorin-kommunikation@uni-greifswald.de
Pro-Rectors' Office
Since April 2021 | Pro-Rector responsible for Communication, Human Resources Development and Equal Opportunities |
Since April 2020 | Managing Director of the Department of German Philology at the University of Greifswald |
Since April 2019 | Chair of German Linguistics at the University of Greifswald |
2016-2019 | Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim in connection to a position at the Pragmatics Department at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim |
March/April 2018 | Visiting lecturer at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada |
2017 | Habilitation on the topic 'Diskursphänomen Cybermobbing. Ein internetlinguistischer Zugang zu [digitaler] Gewalt.' (Venia Legendi: General and Applied Linguistics.) |
September 2013 | Visiting lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China |
2010-2016 | Research assistant at the Institute for Language and Communication at the Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of General Linguistics |
2008-2010 | Project manager in the energy industry |
2007 | Ph.D. on the topic 'Die Verarbeitung von Komplex-Anaphern. Neurolinguistische Untersuchungen zur kognitiven Textverstehenstheorie.' |
2004-2007 | Doctoral candidate of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (with research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, and in cooperation with the Center for Language and Cognition in Groningen, the Netherlands) |
2003-2004 | Research assistant for the DFG pilot project 'KomplexTex' at the Department of German Linguistics, University of Jena |
2002 | Magistra Artium on the topic 'Herr Bin Laden hat sich zu Mord gemeldet. Zur Relevanz situativer Versprecher für ein Sprachproduktionsmodell.' |
1997-2002 | Study of German Studies, Speech Science/Phonetics, Media Studies (Magistra Artium) and Education (Certificate) |
Prof. Dr. Ralf Schneider

Pro-Rector (Responsible for Research, Digitisation and Transfer)
Domstraße 11, Entrance 2
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 1162
prorektor-forschung@uni-greifswald.de
Pro-Rectors' Office
Since February 2022 | Pro-Rector for Research, Digitisation and Transfer |
Since 2011 | Professor of Computational Science and Director of the University Computer Centre, University of Greifswald |
2010 | Professor of Computer-Assisted Material Sciences, University of Greifswald |
2005–2009 | Head of the HGF University Junior Research Group ‘Simulation of Material Behaviour under Contact with Plasma’, University of Greifswald |
2006–2007 | Research Associate, German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Theoretical Bioinformatics Division |
2001 | Habilitation in theoretical physics, University of Greifswald |
1990–2009 | Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching and Greifswald |
1987–1989 | Doctorate in physics, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics Garching, University of Bayreuth |
1980-1986 | Study of physics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
Dorthe G. A. Hartmann

Pro-Rector (Responsible for Teaching, Teacher Training and Internationalisation)
Domstraße 11, Entrance 2
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 1163
prorektor-lehre@uni-greifswald.de
Pro-Rectors' Office
Since April 2021 | Pro-Rector responsible for Teaching, Teacher Training and Internationalisation |
2017-2018 | Lehren - The Alliance for Higher Education |
2012-2014 | European University Association, Institutional Evaluation Programme, Team Coordinator |
Since 2010 | Greifswald Model United Nations (GreiMUN) e.V., legal English support |
Since 2007 | Greifswald Certificate in English for Legal Purposes (CELP Programme) |
Since October 2001 | University of Greifswald, Faculty of Law and Economics: teaching of legal English, teaching assistant |
1994-2001 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Contact study of Language Andragogy, certificate |
1989-1990 | University of East Anglia, Norwich, England: M.A. in Comparative Literature |
1985-1989 | Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg: Study of English Studies, Slavic Studies, and Eastern European History |
Work in Committes | Since 2018: Member of the ratifying Study Committee at the UG |
2017-2018: Member of the working group Mission Statement for Teaching at the UG | |
2018-2020: Memmber of the working group Language Policy at the UG | |
Since 2018: Member of the working group University Didactics at the UG |
Hennis Herbst

Since February 2022 | Student Pro-Rector |
Since 2019 | Since October 2019 - Study of Political Science/Public Law at the University of Greifswald |
2020-2022 | Chairman of the Students' Union (AStA), University of Greifswald |
2021–2022 | Student Senator |
Dr. Juliane Huwe

Acting Registrar, Head of Administration and Finance
Domstraße 11, Entrance 4
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 1111
kanzler@uni-greifswald.de