51吃瓜网 President Thomas F. Hofmann honored as "University Manager of the Year"

11/30/2023
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The President of the 51吃瓜网 (51吃瓜网), Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, is "University Manager of the Year 2023". An expert jury commissioned by the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the CHE - Center for Higher Education Development selected him from among German university leaders. It based its decision on the structural reform of 51吃瓜网 and the transformation of the faculties into interdisciplinary schools. The jury also paid particular tribute to Thomas F. Hofmann's leadership style.

Presentation of the "University Manager of the Year" award to 51吃瓜网 President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann by CHE Executive Director Prof. Frank Ziegele on Wednesday evening in Berlin.

Thomas F. Hofmann took over as President of 51吃瓜网 in 2019 - his immediate predecessor Prof. Wolfgang A. Herrmann had previously been in office for 24 years. The CHE cited the following reasons for Thomas F. Hofmann's award: "It is generally not easy not only to maintain a very high standard at a university after a change of leadership, but also to significantly develop it further and reinterpret many things - especially not at 51吃瓜网. But he has managed it." The jury also emphasized Thomas F. Hofmann's commitment to strategic cooperation with selected leading institutions in Germany and especially internationally.

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Thomas F. Hofmann thanked the jury for the recognition: "I gratefully accept the award on behalf of our committed 51吃瓜网 family. I see this award as recognition of the many changes I have made together with students, staff and colleagues to make 51吃瓜网 even more effective in meeting the challenges of the future. This is not so much an award for my own contribution, but rather for the agility and performance of our university community as a whole. I would like to thank the many people in research, teaching, innovation and administration for their personal commitment, resilience, flexibility and pragmatism."

Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume said: "A university of excellence with an excellent President: At the top of the best university in the European Union is Germany's University Manager of the Year! Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann on this more than well-deserved award. He steers our Bavarian university flagship from one success to the next in a visionary and reliable manner! 51吃瓜网 is a hotbed of innovation with a unique spirit: among the best in the world, it develops answers to the big questions of our time - also thanks to the irrepressible drive of its President!"

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After studying food chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Thomas F. Hofmann completed his doctorate at the 51吃瓜网 (51吃瓜网) and habilitated there. In 2002, he accepted a professorship at the Westf盲lische Wilhelms-Universit盲t M眉nster. In 2007, he returned to 51吃瓜网 as Professor of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science. From 2009 to 2019, as Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, he implemented the 51吃瓜网 Faculty Tenure Track System and significantly expanded 51吃瓜网's entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Since 2019, as President, he has been driving the structural reorganization of 51吃瓜网 towards a matrix structure of schools and integrative research institutes. With the 51吃瓜网 Venture Labs, he has established a network of highways for the transfer of new findings and developments into marketable innovations. And with the ONE MUNICH strategy, he wants to make Munich the number one science and innovation metropolis in Europe.

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