Committees

Responsibilities of the examination committee include:

• Registration of thesis topics,
• Extension of deadlines for thesis submission,
• Transfer of credits and grades from other programmes (form available from Examination Office Biology)
• Transfer of credits (form available from Examination Office Biology)
• Requests for an extension to the time allowed for degree completion (no official form required)
• Requests for an extension to the time allowed to meet the minimum ECTS score requirement (Grundlagen- und Orientierungsprüfung, GOP; no official form required)
• Claims of hardship (no official form required; please submit relevant certificates and/or statement via KIS Disability Resource Center)
• Reasonable accommodation (via KIS Disability Resource Center)
• Organisation of assessments

You can hand in your signed forms and/or requests at the Office of the Dean of Studies (Studiendekanat; room B004; office hours: Mo - We 9-12 and Th 14-16) or directly at the Examination Office Biology (Prüfungsamt Biologie).

Examination board for bachelor and master:

Chair:
PD Dr. Robert Hock

Deputy Chair:
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Beier

Members:
Prof. Dr. Ricarda Scheiner
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Dröge-Laser

Examination board for teaching:

Chair:
Dr. Sabine Gerstner

Members:
Ulrike Rapp-Galmiche
PD Dr. Robert Hock

The members of the committee on the use of government subsidies for higher education institutions (Kommission zur Verwendung von Studienzuschüssen) are appointed by the Faculty Board. We use the government subsidies we receive to improve the quality of our teaching, our student services, and our infrastructure. Students and teaching staff are equally represented on the committee. Based on requests submitted by members of the Faculty or by students, the committee decides on the use of the subsidies we receive. The committee is chaired by the Dean of Studies. The representatives of the Faculty’s student community as well as of its teaching staff are appointed by the Faculty Board for one-year terms. The faculty student representation (Fachschaft) proposes candidates for appointment to the committee as representatives of the Faculty’s student community. Usually, requests for the allocation of a share of the subsidies we receive are submitted to the chair of the committee at the end of the budget year. The committee meets several times throughout the budget year, which starts at the end of the winter semester, to decide on requests. Urgent requests may be submitted to the Office of the Dean of Studies at any time.

The degree programme planning committee (Studienplankommission, StuPK) we installed in 2004 had the same responsibilities as degree subject committees (Studienfachkommission, StuFK). Therefore, the StuPK was recently renamed degree subject committee (StuFK). Matters regarding teaching quality used to fall within the responsibility of the StuPK of the Faculty of Biology and now fall within the responsibility of the Faculty’s StuFK. The StuFK meets at regular intervals, and at least twice per semester.
Matters regarding teaching degree programmes fall within the responsibility of a subcommittee comprised of the members of the StuFK and lecturers involved in teacher training.

Contact:
Alois Palmetshofer

Chair:
PD Dr. Alois Palmetshofer (career coordinator)

Members:
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter (Dean)
Prof. Dr. Irene Marten (molecular plant physiology and biophysics)
Dr. Michael Riedel (ecophysiology and vegetation ecology)
PD Dr. Susanne Berger (pharmaceutical biology)
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Beier (microbiology)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar (bioinformatics)
PD Dr. Sören Doose (biotechnology and biophysics)
Dr. Dirk Rieger (neurobiology and genetics)
Prof. Dr. Manfred Alsheimer (cell and developmental biology)
Dr. Oliver Geissler (behavioural physiology and sociobiology)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitt (animal ecology and tropical biology)
Prof. Dr. Sabine Fischer (CCTB)
PD Dr. Robert Hock (degree programme coordinator)

Guest:
Dr. Brooke Morriswood (cell and developmental biology)

Deans of Studies:
Prof. Dr. Markus Engstler (Dean of Studies)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller (Dean of Studies)

student representatives:
Madita Huvar, FiBio Initiative
Aylin Richter, FiBio Initiative (Guest) 
Gina Soyka, FiBio Initiative (Guest)
Konstantin Tempel, FiBio Initiative

teaching:
Prof. Dr. Manfred Alsheimer (cell and developmental biology)
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Beier  (microbiology)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar (bioinformatics)
Dr. Oliver Geissler (behavioural physiology and sociobiology)
Dr. Sabine Gerstner (FDid)
Dr. Sabine Glaab (FDid)
PD Dr. Robert Hock (degree programme coordinator)
Prof. Dr. Susanne Kramer (RNA biology of kinetoplastids)
Dr. Ines Kreuzer (molecular plant physiology and biophysics)
Prof. Dr. Irene Marten (molecular plant physiology and biophysics)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller (dean of studies teaching)
Dr. Ulrike Rapp-Galmiche (study coordinator teaching)
Dr. Michael Riedel (ecophysiology and vegetation ecology)
Dr. Pingkalai Senthilan (neurobilogy and genetics)
Dr. Matthias Wolf (bioinformatics)

student representatives:
Jasmin-Julika Nettusch, FiBio Initiative
Pia Schuster, FiBio Initiative