Press release: Senate confirms Vice-President

No. 47 - 22.03.2023

Dr Valérie Schüller re-elected to University management position for second term 

The Senate of the University of Göttingen has confirmed Dr Valérie Schüller’s appointment as the University's full-time Vice-President for Finance and Human Resources. The Senate voted today in favour of a second term for the 49-year-old lawyer on the recommendation of the Findungskommission (search committee). The University Foundation Committee has already endorsed the Senate's proposal. Schüller has been full-time Vice-President of the University of Göttingen since 2019. Her second term will begin on 1 April 2025, and the duration of this term will be eight years.

"Valérie Schüller has successfully led and developed two important areas, Finance and Human Resources, over recent years," said Professor Peter Strohschneider, Chair of the Findungskommission and the University Foundation Committee. "Among the challenges of her first term were two phases in which she led the University in an acting-up capacity, and the coronavirus pandemic."

University President Professor Metin Tolan said: "I am very pleased to have Valérie Schüller continue as a full-time member of the Presidential Board team and to continue the excellent cooperation with her in the coming years."

Valérie Schüller, born in 1974, studied law at the University of Mainz. In 2002, she completed her legal training with the second state law examination, and at the end of 2003, she completed her training in media law at the University of Mainz with the Master of Laws (LL.M.). In 2006, she received her doctorate from the Department of Law and Economics at the University of Mainz. From 2005 to 2016, Schüller was managing director of the department, with an interruption in 2011/2012 when she was part of the team for the Excellence Initiative of the University of Mainz. In addition, she was a member of the following committees at the University of Mainz, each for a number of years: the Senate, the Budget and Structure Committee and the Statutes Committee.

University President Professor Metin Tolan said: "I am very pleased to have Valérie Schüller continue as a full-time member of the Presidential Board team and to continue the excellent cooperation with her in the coming years."

In 2016, she moved to Bingen Technical University of Applied Sciences as their Chancellor, and in 2017 to Mainz University of Applied Sciences, also as Chancellor. In April 2019, Schüller became full-time Vice-President for Finance and Human Resources at the University of Göttingen. In October and November 2019 and from January to March 2021, she led the University on an interim basis as Acting President.