Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity
The Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity advises the Senate on questions regarding equal opportunity. The committee is responsible for promoting equal opportunity and gender equality in academia. The central equal opportunity commissioner is the chair of the committee. Other members who are eligible to vote are two persons elected from each of the four status groups “professors”, “academic staff members”, “doctoral students”, and “students”. The Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity meets at least once every semester.
Members
The following nine persons are eligible to vote in the Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity:
Chair
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024
Professors
Deputies:
Prof. Dr. Lea Tochtermann1 August 2023 to 31 July 2025
Academic staff members
Linh Nguyen
Deputies:
1 August 2023 to 31 July 2025
Doctoral candidates
Melanie Tissot
Jan Menzner (starting 1 August 2024)Deputies:
Wiebke Juliane Elter1 August 2023 to 31 July 2025
Students
Charlotte Grünen
Sophia SchäferDeputies:
Emily Schönenborn1 August 2024 to 31 July 2025
Participate in the Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity an advisory function:Equal opportunity commissioner of the Department of Law and Economics
Deputy:
Equal opportunity commissioner of the Business School
Equal opportunity commissioner of the Dean’s Office of the Business School
Equal opportunity commissioner of the School of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Beatrice G. Kuhlmann
Deputies:
Clara Husson
Johanna HölzlEqual opportunity commissioner of the School of Humanities
Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller-Lancé
Deputy:
Prof. Claudia GronemannEqual opportunity commissioner of the School of Business Informatics and Mathematics
Deputy:
Prof. Dr. David PrömelEqual opportunity commissioner of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
Deputy:
Dr. Constantin WurthmannRepresentative of the GESS
Head of the Department of Gender Equality and Diversity
Vice President for Strategic Planning, Internationalization and Equal Opportunity
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fetzer WUMAN
Equal opportunity commissioner of the AStA Yagmur Yeic Organization
The executive assistant to the central equal opportunity commissioner is responsible for supervising the organization of the Senate Committee on Equal Opportunity.
Contact
Corinna Kröger (she/her)
Central Equal Opportunity Commissioner
B 6, 30–32 – Room 033
68159 Mannheim