Elected women’s representatives

Promoting gender equality and gender mainstreaming are key cross-departmental tasks at FAU. The position of women’s representative was created in 1989 to ensure that equality measures were indeed put into practice. The post of women’s representative at a Bavarian university is a voluntary position that is key to ensuring universities meet statutory equality requirements.

The tasks, rights and obligations of the women’s representatives are stipulated in Section 4 of the Bavarian Higher Education Act (BayHSchG). The FAU Constitution goes further than the BayHSchG and states in Sections 21 and 22 that women’s representatives will have a central and formally acknowledged role in monitoring and implementing equal opportunities in the University’s bodies and committees. In Bavaria, women’s representatives are volunteers.

The brochure “Women’s Representatives at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Description of the office” details the basic legal and formal requirements of the position of women’s representative, the tasks and rights it entails, and describes how equal opportunities are integrated into all areas across FAU.

University Women’s Representative

University Women’s Representative

  • Prof. Dr. med. Kerstin Amann

Deputies of University Women’s Representative

  • Prof. Dr. Alexandra Schambony
  • PD Dr. Aura Heydenreich, Akad. ORätin

Women’s representatives at the faculties and departments

Website of the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

  • Dr. Katharina Gerund

Deputy Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

  • Dr. Cleophea Ferrari

Advisor to the Faculty women’s representatives

  • Anna Isenmann, M.A.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures

  • Dr. Cleophea Ferrari
  • Katharina Oft, M.A.

Women’s representatives at the Department of English, American and Romance Studies

  • Alina Aulbur, M.A.
  • Dr. Miriam Zapf

Women’s representative at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies

  • Sabine Lang

Women’s representatives at the Department of Didactics

  • Dr. Katja Feigenspan, Akad. ORätin
  • Pia Reimann

Women’s representatives at the School of Theology

  • Dr. Barbara Beyer
  • Christine Schulte am Hülse, Mag. theol.

Women’s representatives at the Department of German and Comparative Studies

  • PD Dr. Aura Heydenreich, Akad. ORätin
  • Dr. Karin Rädle

Women’s representatives at the Department of History

  • Dr. Cornelia Scherer
  • Dr. Hanna Schäfer

Women’s representatives at the Department of
Islamic-Religious Studies

  • Imane El Guennouni, M.A.
  • Elham Daniela Mazloum, M.A.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Media Studies and Art History

  • Prof. Dr. Bettina Brandl-Risi

Women’s representatives at the Department of Education

  • Stephanie Leupert, M.A.
  • Petra Ackerlauer, M.A.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Psychology

  • Christine Heinisch, Ph.D.
  • Isabelle May
  • Dipl.-Psych. Marlis Gerdes

Women’s representatives at the Department of Sport Science and Sport

  • Dr. Jana Semrau
  • Dr. Sabine Mayer

Women’s representatives at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

  • Joanna Katharina Kiefer, M.A.
  • Christianna Blunt, M.A.
  • Katharina Nicolai, M.A.

Website of the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law

Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law and the School of Business, Economics and Society

  • Prof. Dr. Martina Steul-Fischer

Deputy faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law and women’s representative at the School of Law

  • Prof. Dr. Paulina Pesch

Advisor to the Faculty women’s representatives

  • Valerie Havemann, M.A.

Deputy women’s representatives at the School of Business, Economics and Society

  • Prof. Dr. Lisa Handke
  • Prof. Dr. Markus Nagler
  • Dr. Verena Hossnofsky
  • Dr. Franziska Schlichte

Deputy women’s representative at the School of Law

  • Prof. Dr. Jochen Hoffmann
  • Melina Reyher

Website of the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Medicine

Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Medicine

  • Prof. Dr. med. Simone Schmitz-Spanke

Assistant to the Women’s Representatives at the Faculty of Medicine

  • N.N.

Deputy women’s representatives at the Faculty of Medicine

  • PD Dr. med. Brigitte Biesinger-Zwosta
  • Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Aline Bozec
  • PD Dr. med. Stefanie Burghaus
  • Prof. Dr. Fritz Dross
  • Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Claudia Günther
  • PD Dr. med. Stefanie Horndasch
  • Dr. rer. nat. Gloria Lutzny-Geier
  • Dr. med. Anke Mittelstädt
  • PD Dr. med. Sarina Müller
  • PD Dr. med. Anne Schützenberger
  • PD Dr. med. Silivia Spörl

Website of the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Sciences

Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Sciences

  •  Prof. Dr. Friedlinde Götz-Neunhoeffer

Deputy Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Sciences

  •  Andrea Gilch

Assistant to the Women’s Representatives at the Faculty of Sciences

  • Cornelia Geisler

Women’s representatives at the Department of Biology

  • Prof. Dr. Anja Lux
  • Dr. Isabell Albert
  • PD Dr. Sophia Sonnewald

Women’s representatives at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy

  • Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner
  • Prof. Dr. Danijela Gregurec
  • Dr. Karin Mansyreff

Women’s representatives at the Department of Data Science

  • Prof. Dr. Marie-Christine Düker
  • Dr. Kevin-Martin Aigner

Women’s representatives at the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

  • Prof. Dr. Rachel Warnock
  • Dr. Julia Kieslinger
  • PD Dr. Alexandra Titz
  • Dr. Emma Dunne
  • Prof. Dr. Barbara Kleine-Marshall
  • Susanne Schröder-Bergen, M.A.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Mathematics

  • PD Dr. Maria Neuss-Radu, Akad. Dir.
  • Dr. Yasemine Sanderson

Women’s representatives at the Department of Physics

  • Prof. Dr. Kristina Giesel
  • Dr. Angela Fösel, Akad. Dir.
  • PD Dr. Ira Jung-Richardt, Akad. Rat
  • Prof. Dr. Sabine Maier

Website of the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Engineering

Faculty women’s representative at the Faculty of Engineering

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Philipp Beckerle

Assistants to the women’s representatives at the Faculty of Engineering

  • Astrid Nietzold
  • Hanna Stöcker

Women’s representatives at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE)

  • Rebecca Lennartz, M.Sc.
  • Johanna Müller, M.Sc.
  • Dr. Anne Hartebrodt 

Women’s representatives at the Department of Computer Science

  • Vanessa Klein, M.Sc.
  • Riccarda Scherner-Grießmann, M. Sc.
  • Daniela Novac, Dipl.-Inf.
  • Laura Fink, M. Sc.
  • Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Wißmann

Women’s representatives at the Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering

  • Katharina Braun, M.Sc.
  • Carola Schlumberger, M. Sc.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • Dr. sc. techn. Julia Will
  • Dr. Hannah Smith

Women’s representatives at the Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Dr.-Ing. Silvia Budday
  • Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Reitelshöfer
  • Yashasvi Verma, M. Sc.

Women’s representatives at the Department of Electrical Engineering

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Philipp Beckerle
  • Ann-Christine Fröhlich, M. Sc. 
  • Esther Renner, M.Sc.
  • Angelika Thalmayer, M.Sc.

Equality Opportunities Officer

The position of Equality Opportunities Officer for non-academic staff and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is stipulated in the Bavarian Equal Treatment Act (BayGlG). Their tasks predominantly involve encouraging and monitoring the implementation of the BayGlG and the equal opportunity concept for the area of non-academic staff, improving the situation of women and helping staff to balance work and family life. The women’s representatives at FAU and the Office of Equality and Diversity work together closely with the Equal Opportunities Officer in a number of areas relating to equality policy.