Lower Saxony – Scotland Joint Forum
23 + 24 November 2020

Professor Tim Bedford is Associate Principal for Research and Innovation and also Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Strathclyde hosts the only Fraunhofer Centre in the UK. Tim is a member of the Board of CESAER, the European Association of Universities of Science and Technology and also Chair of its Task Force on Innovation where TU Braunschweig also participates. He is working closely with colleagues at TU Braunschweig to extend the areas of collaboration in science and technology with Strathclyde, and is particularly interested in ensuring that Scottish researchers are able to continue European research collaboration post-Brexit, in Lower Saxony and elsewhere.

Martin Sauter is Professor of Applied Geology at the Centre of Geosciences, and Head of Department of Applied Geology.
He studied Geology at the University of Tübingen and Hydrogeology at the University of Birmingham, UK. After 5 years of being a consultant he returned to the University for research into karst modelling and characterisation as well as coupled processes in fractured rock aquifers. His research focus is on the development of numerical tools (double continuum model), the quantification of flow processes in the fractured‐porous fractured unsaturated zone as well as the characterisation of aquifer geometries and hydraulic parameters. This expertise was applied to the area of characterization of deep georeservoirs (geothermal, CO 2 storage) by employing tracer experiments. For 1.5 years Prof. Sauter, together with Prof. Dietrich Borchardt, was in charge of the scientific coordination of the so-called ExxonMobil information and dialogue
process into the assessment of risks involved in shale gas development by hydraulic fracturing. Further expertise is available in the area of water resources assessment in arid and semi‐arid areas, infiltration processes in unsaturated fractured systems.

Peter Hecker is Professor of Flight Guidance at TU Braunschweig. His research is focussed on developing technologies, systems and procedures for a safe, efficient and environmental friendly air transport system. Since 2018 he is Vice President for Research and Early Career Scientists.

Professor William Cushley – (Bill) – is Assistant Vice-Principal International at the University of Glasgow, where he is also Professor of Molecular Immunology and serves as Co-Director of the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research with Professor Simon Anderson of the University of the West Indies. He served as Dean for Global Engagement for South and South-East Asia and Australasia until July 2019, and his work encompassed furthering research and staff exchanges across all disciplines with University partners, and developing links with commercial bodies and the research institute sector.
His research interests focus on human B lymphocyte development in health and disease. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the prestigious Babraham Institute in Cambridge and Chair of the Life Sciences & Medicine Panel for the quinquennial REF-style
review of Research Institutes in Portugal. He is currently Chair of the UK Expert Committee on Pesticides (ECP), which provides independent scientific advice to UK Ministers and the Devolved Administrations on the use of Plant Protection Products.

Professor Neville Wylie is Deputy Principal (International) and professor of International History at the University of Stirling. He is also chair of the UniversitiesUK – International Latin America Network. He was previously Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement at the University of Nottingham, where he had particular responsibility for the Americas region. His research explores various aspects of modern warfare and draws on the disciplines of History, International Relations and International Law.

Professor Andrea Dorothea Bührmann is Vice President for Studying, Learning and Equal Opportunities of the University of Göttingen as well as the director of the diversity research institute.
Among a variety of other positions, Professor Buehrmann currently serves as a member of the “Standing Commission on Learning and Studying” of the Lower Saxony Rectors Conference (LHK), as well as one of the founding committee members of the academic network “A Strong Voice for Studying and Learning” at the German Rectors Conference (HRK). In addition, Professor Bührmann is chair of the thematic peer group “Approaches in learning and teaching to promoting equity and
inclusion” at the European University Association (EUA), Brussels and a member of the supervisory board of the “European Center for Constitutional and Human rights” (ECCHR).
Her research explores various aspects of the sociology of diversity and of knowledge, including
aspects of digitization.

Markus Reihlen is Professor of Strategic Management at Leuphana University of
Lüneburg. From 2010 to 2012 he was Graduate School Dean of Studies and from 2012 until 2020 Vice President responsible for Leuphana Graduate School, Young
Academics and Entrepreneurship. Before joining Leuphana, he held various visiting professor and guest researcher positions, including the University of St. Gallen, the University of Mannheim, the University of Technology Aachen, the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Oxford, the Copenhagen Business School, and McGill University. He has received awards in research and teaching, including eight Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Marketing, and the Gold Star Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
In his research, he focuses on strategies, organizational, and managerial practices
of firms related to such topics as internationalization, corporate and digital
entrepreneurship, and organizational failure. He is also interested in the
philosophical and methodological foundations of management studies. Together with Dennis Schoeneborn (Copenhagen Business School) he currently edits the epistemology section of the Springer Handbook of the Philosophy of Management.
Together with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues from Leuphana, Prof. Reihlen
acquired a large research fund from the EU and the State of Lower Saxony to
study digital entrepreneurship of regional small and medium-sized businesses.

lbadat Dhillon is a technical officer inthe Department of HealthWorkforce at the
World Health Organization. lbadat’s work has focused on human resources
for health and health systems at the national and global levels. He has
previously served as a health advisor for the Danish government, the Irish government, and the United States Center for Disease Control and
Prevention

Moira Fischbacher-Smith is Professor of Public Management and Vice-Principal (Learning & Teaching) at the University of Glasgow. She leads the University’s strategy and policy development for learning and teaching, has responsibility for teaching quality, and works with colleagues across the University to support student and staff development in relation to teaching and learning. Moira is also on the Project Board that is developing a new Learning and Teaching Hub on the University's main campus and leads the work on refurbishing teaching spaces on campus. Moira has also led on the University’s response to Covid-19 in terms of moving to online and blended learning.

James Conroy is Professor of Religious and Philosophical Education (Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith) and Dean of Global Engagement for Europe at the Universitiy of Glasgow.

Professor Hiltraud Casper-Hehne is Vice President for International Affairs of the University of Göttingen as well as Professor in the Department of Intercultural German Studies. She currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of the European University ENLIGHT  (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen, Uppsala, Tartu, Bordeaux, Bilbao, Galway), as a member of the Board of the German Academic Exchange Service, as member of the “Language Advisory Board” of the Goethe Institute and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen.

She held a variety of positions focusing on international higher education cooperation in research and teaching as well as strategy development: Member of the Ad-hoc Expert Group “European Universities” of the EU-Commission, member of the HERA-Board (Humanities in the European Research Area), member of the Executive Board of the European University Network COIMBRA, chair of the Association of German as a Foreign Language and chair of the Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Science and Education on developing a China-Strategy.

Professor Christina von Haaren is Vice President International and (designated) Sustainability and Professor of Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research focusses on modelling and planning Ecosystem Services and biodiversity. Recent projects about allocation of renewable energy and considering water demands of habitats in water scarcity assessments.

Manfred Krafczyk is Professor for Computational Engineering at TU Braunschweig. His main research field is the development of kinetic methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics and High Performance Computing. Presently, he is also acting as Vice President for Digital Affairs and Technology Transfer.

Miles Padgett holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is Principal Investigator of QuantIC , the UK's Centre of excellence for
research, development and innovation in quantum enhanced imaging. This centre
brings together eight Universities with more than 40 industry partners.
During his 5-year term as Vice-Principal for Research (2014-19) he and his team championed how an improved research culture was not an alternative to
excellence but rather what would allow more of us to excel. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy, and has won a various national and international prize including the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. In 2019 he was also named by Web of Science as globally highly-cited researcher, one of only eight physicists in the UK.

Burkhardt Funk is Professor of Information Systems at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, where he teaches IS and Data Science. In his research, he focuses on understanding and predicting user behavior in online applications using machine learning. Turning scientific results into practical solutions plays an important role in Burkhardt’s work.