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Christian Zens, Chancellor

Chancellor

FAU Chancellor Christian Zens
Christian Zens (Image: FAU/Thomas Ritter)

Contact:

Phone: +49 9131 85 26602
E-mail: kanzler@fau.de

Secretary’s office:

Doreen Klatt
kanzler-assistenz@fau.de
Phone: +49 9131 85 26603
Fax: + 49 9131 85 26712

Schlossplatz 4, 91054 , Erlangen, 1st floor, room 1.026

Permanent Representative of the Chancellor according to Section 33 (4) of the Bavarian Higher Education Act (BayHIG):

Dr. Jochen Weinzierl

Phone: +49 9131 85 24804
jochen.weinzierl@fau.de

Curriculum vitae

Christian Zens (born in 1961) studied law at LMU Munich from 1982 to 1988. After passing the first State Examination, he completed his legal training at the Higher Regional Court in Munich from 1988 to 1991, and passed the second State Examination.

In 1991 he took on the position of head of department at the Federal Property Office in Frankfurt an der Oder. In January 1993, he became acting head of the Office and was appointed as its director in September 1993. In 2003, he was appointed head of section and deputy head of department at the Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues (BADV). In 2005, he was appointed as an officer at the Federal Ministry of Finance responsible for the legal supervision of the BADV before again taking on the position of head of section and deputy head of department at the Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues (BADV) in July 2006.

He was Chancellor at the European University Viadrina from 2007 to 2017. In 2007, he also became involved in the IT working group of the national association of university chancellors for the first time and has been a member ever since. He was director of the working group from 2014 to 2018.

He has also been a member of the board of the German National Research and Education Network (DFN) since 2018.

He was appointed Chancellor of FAU in February 2017.


Chancellor’s Office/Organisational Development

from UnivIS - Information System of the FAU

Leitung

  • Kühlers, Doris, RDin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25816, Email: doris.kuehlers@fau.de

stv. Leiter Kanzlerbüro

  • Bartels, Christian, RR, Phone number: +49 9131 85-24500, Email: christian.bartels@fau.de

Referentin des Kanzlers

  • Eder, Yvonne, Phone number: +49 9131 85-23423, Email: yvonne.eder@fau.de

Rechtsangelegenheiten

  • Bartels, Christian, RR, Phone number: +49 9131 85-24500, Email: christian.bartels@fau.de
  • Gangl, Sabine, Phone number: +49 9131 85-24855, Email: sabine.gangl@fau.de
  • Kühlers, Doris, RDin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25816, Email: doris.kuehlers@fau.de
  • Plorin, Eva, Phone number: +49 9131 85-26705, Email: eva.plorin@fau.de

Betreuung von Berufungsverfahren und Sitzungen

  • N. N., Phone number: +49 9131 85-22136
  • Thoenissen, Beate, RARin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-26627, Email: beate.thoenissen@fau.de

Wahlamt

  • Bautz, Carolin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25805, Email: carolin.bautz@fau.de
  • Kontakt Hochschulwahlen, Email: hochschulwahlen@fau.de
  • Vaask, Sonja, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25826, Email: sonja.vaask@fau.de

Dual Career Netzwerk Nordbayern (DCNN) / Dual Career Service

  • Eder, Yvonne, Phone number: +49 9131 85-23423, Email: yvonne.eder@fau.de

Projekt MOVE@FAU

  • Hanuschke, Ann-Kathrin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25893, Email: ann-kathrin.hanuschke@fau.de
  • Kühlers, Doris, RDin, Phone number: +49 9131 85-25816, Email: doris.kuehlers@fau.de
  • Müller, Christoph, Phone number: +49 9131 85-20280, Email: chris.cm.mueller@fau.de
  • Dr. Schmidt, Christopher, Phone number: +49 9131 85-24172, Email: christopher.cs.schmidt@fau.de

Universitätsarchiv i. S. d. Art. 14 BayArchivG

  • Dr. Wachter, Clemens, Phone number: +49 9131 85-23948, Phone number: +49 911 41024103, Phone number: 0162/1390051, Email: clemens.wachter@fau.de



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