Examination Committee
Responsibilities and members
Responsibilities
Common student concerns, such as hardship applications and changes to module catalogues and amendments to the study regulations, fall within the remit of the Examinations Committees. Changes may be required if responsibility for courses is transferred to other colleagues and names or the focus of the courses need to be amended. Furthermore, feedback from students is taken very seriously and used to review the feasibility of the degree programmes.
Each degree programme has an Examinations Committee which makes all key decisions relating to teaching. Within the faculty, the six Examinations Committees for the chemistry degree programmes, five for the degree programmes of the Institute of Geography, three Examinations Committees for the geosciences degree programmes and one Examinations Committee for the Materials Science degree programme meet regularly (as required, but at least twice a year).
Each Examinations Committee consists of representatives from the three staff categories: professors, mid-level academic staff and students.
Please note: From the winter semester 2026/27 onwards, there will be only one Examinations Committee at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. This is based on the new framework examination regulations, which have been in force since 1 April 2026. More information on the framework examination regulations de
Members (until the 2026 summer semester)
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Biogeosciences BSc/MSc
Professors
Prof. Dr Kai Uwe Totsche (CGF) – Chair
Prof. Dr Thorsten Schäfer (CGF) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Erika Kothe (FBW)
Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel (FBW)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Dirk Merten (CGF)
Dr Robert Rauschkolb (FBW)
Deputies: Dr Ruth Magh (CGF), Sarah Nettemann (CGF), Dr Katrin Krause (FBW), Till Deilmann (FBW)
Students
B.Sc.: Maja Bocker (Deputy: Leonie Höhn)
M.Sc.: Peter Wiemuth (Deputy: Rachel Weisheit)
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B.Sc. in Chemistry
Professors
Prof. Dr Andrey Turchanin (IPC) – Chair
Prof. Dr Martin Oschatz (ITUC) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Ivan Vilotijevic (IOMC)
Prof. Dr Birgit Weber (IAAC)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Uwe Köhn (IOMC)
Dr Sven Krieck (IAAC)
Students
Fanny Menzel (Deputy: Johanna Kayser)
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M.Sc. in Chemistry
Professors
Prof. Winfried Plass (IAAC) – Chair
Prof. Dr Kalina Peneva (IOMC) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Volker Deckert (IPC)
Assistant Professor Andrea Pannwitz (IAAC)
Senior Lecturers
Associate Professor Michael Schmitt (IPC)
Dr Andreas Winter (IOMC)
Students
Julius Willrich
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M.Sc. in Chemistry—Energy—Environment
Professors
Prof. Dr Andrea Balducci (ITUC) – Chair
Prof. Dr Martin Oschatz (ITUC) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić (IPC)
Prof. Dr Ulrich S. Schubert (IOMC)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Marcus Franke (ITUC)
Dr Martin Hager (IOMC)
Students
TBC
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M.Sc. in Chemical Biology
Professors
Prof. Dr Christian Hertweck (Faculty of Biological Sciences/Hans Knöll Institute) – Chair
Prof. Dr Hans-Dieter Arndt (IOMC) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Ute Hellmich (IOMC)
Prof. Dr Pierre Stallforth (IOMC)
Senior Lecturers
Associate Professor Dr Michael Schmitt
PD Dr Thomas Wichard
Students
Vivien Sulimma (Deputy: TBC)
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M.Sc. in Chemistry of Materials
Professors
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lothar Wondraczek (OSIM) – Chair
Prof. Dr Andrea Balducci (ITUC)
Prof. Dr Felix H. Schacher (IOMC)
Prof. Dr Andrey Turchanin (IPC)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Zhiwen Pan (OSIM)
Dr Franziska Scheffler (OSIM)
Students
TBC
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Chemistry Teacher Training
Professors
Prof. Dr Tom Wagner (Didactics) – Chair
Prof. Dr Birgit Weber (IAAC) – Deputy Chair
Deputy Chair: Prof. Dr Felix H. Schacher (IOMC)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Uwe Köhn (IOMC)
Students
Erik Rottluff
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B.Sc. in Geography
Professors
Prof. Dr Simon Runkel (IGG) – Chair
Prof. Dr Alexander Brenning (IGG) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Sebastian Henn (IGG)
Prof. Dr Beate Michalzik (IGG)
Senior Lecturers
Björn Braunschweig (IGG)
Dominique Kauer (IGG)
Students
Emily Rohrbach (Deputy: Wiebke Vogel)
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M.Sc. in Geography
Professors
Prof. Dr Beate Michalzik (IGG) – Chair
Prof. Dr Roland Zech (IGG) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Sebastian Henn (IGG)
Prof. Dr Simon Runkel (IGG)
Senior Lecturers
Björn Braunschweig (IGG)
Ferdinand Stenglein (IGG)
Florian Achilles (IGG) – Deputy
Students
David Verges (Deputy: Robert Voigt)
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M.Sc. in Geoinformatics
Professors
Prof. Dr Alexander Brenning (IGG) – Chair
Prof. Dr Christiane Schmullius (IGG) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Beate Michalzik (IGG)
Prof. Dr Roland Zech (IGG)
Senior Lecturers
PD Dr Sören Hese (IGG)
Jonathan Frank (IGG)
Students
Jakob Glesmer (Deputy: TBC)
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Geography Teacher Training
Professors
Prof. Dr Roland Zech (IGG) – Chair
Prof. Dr Simon Runkel (IGG)
Senior Lecturers
Florian Strohmaier
Students
Jonny Dietrich (Deputy: Marlene Wolf)
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Geosciences BSc/MSc
Professors
Prof. Dr Kamil Ustaszewski (IGW) – Chair
Prof. Dr Christoph Heubeck (IGW) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Anke Hildebrandt (IGW)
Prof. Dr Juraj Majzlan (IGW)
Prof. Dr Ulrich Wegler (IGW)
Deputy: Prof. Dr Falko Langenhorst (IGW)
Senior Lecturers
Dr Philipp Balling (IGW)
Dr Birgit Kreher-Hartmann (IGW)
Dr Andreas Goepel, Dr Stefan Kiefer (both IGW) – Deputies
Students
B.Sc.: Vincent Alastair Kempfer (Deputy: Robin Kotzan)
M.Sc.: Jannik Bender (Deputy: Teresa Böttcher)
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M.Sc. in Medical Photonics
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Environmental and Georesource Management (M.Sc.)
Professors
Prof. Dr Thorsten Schäfer (IGW) – Chair
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Schirmer (EAH) – Deputy Chair
Prof. Dr Anke Hildebrandt (IGW)
Prof. Dr Juraj Majzlan (IGW)
Prof. Dr Paul Engelke (EAH)
Deputies: Prof. Dr Christoph Heubeck (IGW), Prof. Dr Stefan Rösch (EAH)
Senior Lecturers
Daniela Kretzschmar (EAH)
PD Dr Michael Pirrung (IGW)
PD Dr Thomas Voigt (IGW) – Deputy
Students
Stefan Schuster
Deputy: Maren Kläger
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Materials Science (B.Sc./M.Sc.)
Members of the Examinations Committee, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences (from the winter semester 2026/27)
University lecturers
- Prof. Dr Kalina Peneva (Chemistry)
Deputies: Prof. Dr Andrey Turchanin (Chemistry), Prof. Dr Birgit Weber (Chemistry), Prof. Dr Martin Oschatz (Chemistry) - Prof. Dr Sebastian Henn (Geography)
Deputy: Prof. Dr Roland Zech (Geography) - Prof. Dr Kamil Ustaszewski (Geosciences)
Deputy: Prof. Dr Ulrich Wegler (Geosciences)
Academic staff
- Dr Uwe Köhn (Chemistry, BSc/MSc/LA)
- Deputy: Dr Dirk Bender (Chemistry, BSc/MSc/LA)
- Further deputies: Florian Achilles (Geography, BSc/MSc/LA), Dr Marcus Franke (Chemistry, BSc/MSc/LA), Dr Birgit Kreher-Hartmann (Geosciences, BSc/MSc), Dr Sven Krieck (Chemistry, BSc/LA), Dr Christine Weber (Chemistry, BSc/MSc/LA), PD Dr Thomas Wichard (Chemistry, BSc/MSc)
Students
Bachelor’s
- Vincent Alastair Kempfer (Geosciences)
- Deputies: Lea Patties (Geography), Robin Kotzan (Geosciences), Florian Radschies (Chemistry)
Teacher Training
- Marlene Wolf (Geography)
- Deputies: Leon Lieske (Chemistry), Hannes Starke (Geography)
Master’s
- Celina Titze (Chemistry)
- Substitutes: David Verges (Geography), Niels van der Wall (Chemistry), Hannah Vorbach (Chemistry)
Additional representatives from the Faculty of Biological Sciences
for matters relating to the degree programmes B.Sc. in Biogeosciences, M.Sc. Biogeosciences (phasing out) and M.Sc. Biogeoscience of the Anthropocene
Academic staff
- Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel
- Deputy: Prof. Dr Erika Kothe
Academic staff
- Dr Robert Rauschkolb
- Deputy: Dr Kathrin Krause
The composition of the Examinations Committee was decided by the faculty council at its meeting in July 2026.