Rectorate of TU Graz

The Rectorate manages the University and represents it externally. Together with the University Council and in coordination with the Senate, the Rectorate plans the strategic orientation of the University. In cooperation with the faculties, the Rectorate establishes the University's development plan University's development plan (in German). This determines the prioritisation of future development in teaching, research and administration as well as profile-development measures.

An international leading position in research and teaching

• Intensive cooperation with science and industry
• Entrepreneurial spirit of students and employees
• Visibility and impact on society
• Highly competent and motivated personnel
• High share of women and diversity
• Internationalisation of master’s and PhD programmes
• Profile development in research
• High-quality portfolio of exploitable intellectual property
• Excellent infrastructural framework conditions for research and teaching
• Sustainable economic stability. 

of the Rectorate pursuant to Section 22 para. 1 of the University Act (in German: Universitätsgesetzes 2002) include

• Preparing a draft of the statutes
• Drawing up an organisation plan for passing resolutions
• Preparing a draft of the performance agreement
• Appointing heads of organisational units
• Granting authorisations to teach
• Admission of students
• Initiating evaluations and their publication
• Creation of the estimated budget
• Submission of the statement of accounts and activity report to the federal minister

The detailed tasks of the Rectorate are in the Standing Orders of the Rectorate (in German) of TU Graz.

Harald KAINZ 
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Dr.h.c.mult.
Rechbauerstraße 12
8010 Graz
Tel.: +43 316 873 6000
Fax: +43 316 873 106000
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• Entrepreneurial university:
  TU Graz promotes the entrepreneurial spirit of students and employees.
• Profile development in research:
  TU Graz wishes to earn international recognition in its five Fields of Expertise.
• Internationalisation:
  TU Graz initiates an extensive exchange of teaching staff, researchers and students with leading universities worldwide. With teaching being conducted in English, the University has taken an important step in preparing students and staff for global requirements and opening up the University even more to international teaching staff.
• Cooperation:
  TU Graz sets up strategic partnerships in research and teaching with worldwide leading companies.
• Science – Passion – Technology:
  All staff share enthusiasm for the University. 

Manuela BERNER
Mag.rer.nat.
Statistics and empirical analysis
Phone: +43 316 873 6004
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Renate EULER
Hofrätin Mag.rer.nat. Dr.phil. Dr.rer.nat.
Target and performance agreements
Phone: +43 316 873 6007
renate.euler@tugraz.at

Harald Kainz was born in 1958. After completing his studies in civil engineering and engineering management in construction at Graz University of Technology, in 1982 he was employed at the Institute of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering. After gaining his doctorate in 1990, he took up assignments in managing positions in engineering offices in Austria and abroad, including eight years as managing director and on the executive board.

After ten years of experience in business he returned to Graz University of Technology and was appointed to the Chair of Urban Water Management and Landscape Water Engineering. In 2004 Harald Kainz was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

In 2007 he became Vice Rector of Infrastructure and Information and Communications Technology and has been Rector of Graz University of Technology since 2011.

CV in tabular form

Barbara GIGLER
Mag.phil.
Tel.: +43 316 873 6006
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Horst BISCHOF
Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Rechbauerstraße 12/1
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6020 
Fax: +43 316 873 6845 
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Born in Switzerland in 1967 and brought up in Upper Styria, Horst Bischof studied computer science at TU Wien and subsequently became a scientific assistant at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). He returned to TU Wien as a university assistant, where he gained his doctorate in 1993 and his habilitation in 1995.

He then became visiting professor at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology before he was appointed professor of Computer Vision in 2004.

Horst Bischof has been Vice Rector for Research at Graz University of Technology since 2011. He has published more than 630 scientific works and been presented with 20 national and international awards for his publications.

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Detlef HECK
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. 
Rechbauerstraße 12/I
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6010
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Civil engineer Detlef Heck was appointed professor at Graz University of Technology in 2006 and is head of the Institute of Construction Management and Economics. He studied civil engineering at TU Darmstadt and from 1997 worked as engineer and project manager at Ed. Züblin AG in Stuttgart. After receiving his doctorate in 2004, he was a postdoc at the Institute of Construction Management at TU Darmstadt. In 2013 Detlef Heck became chairman of the curricular committee for the programme of Civil Engineering Sciences, member of the curricular commission and substitute member of the Senate.

Since 2013 he has been head of the Institute of Construction Management and Economics, and since October 2015 Vice Rector of Academic Affairs at TU Graz.

Andrea Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1962. Hoffmann started to set up the Commercial Department of Modine Austria in 1986, where she was responsible for the departments of finance and accounting, controlling, human resources, IT and law and for which she became commercial director in 2003. Parallel with her professional career, she completed her studies in commercial science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, law at Johannes Kepler University Linz and business administration with focus on change management also at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She became a doctor of law at Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2008.

Andrea Hoffmann has been vice rector at Graz University of Technology since 2011.

Claudia VON DER LINDEN
Dipl.Wirtschaftsing. (FH), MBA (IMD)
Rechbauerstraße 12/I
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6050
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Assistents of the Vice Rector for Communication and Change Management:

Claudia von der Linden is a business consultant with particular area of focus on strategic and organisational development, communication and marketing and change management. She is a graduate engineering manager with a diploma from the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) in Germany and with an MBA from the IMD Business School in Switzerland. She initially worked in industry, and then from 1990 to 2002 as managing director and partner in a range of international consulting companies, among which included BIS Strategic Decisions, Mitchell Madison Group, and Theron Business Consulting.

Since 2002 she has been managing partner at Permion Consulting GmbH, Austria, and since 2015 also Vice Rector for Communication and Change Management at TU Graz.

• Development of target-group oriented national and international marketing
• Strengthening internal communication
• More effective and efficient organization of administrative processes with the help of change management
• Embedding participatory change management architecture at Graz University of Technology, taking into account all organisational levels.