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Vice Rector for Education and Teaching

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Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti

Vice-rector for Education and Teaching

E-mail: prorektorat.studium-lehre@uni-bielefeld.de

Strategy and Aims

The competition for excellent domestic and international students is on the rise. And this is not the only issue at stake: student’s expectations for a university education are also changing. Experience with societal shifts in digitalisation, new ways of working, interactive teaching and learning modalities, and above all the use of artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing the conception of a university education. The university as an institution must confront these changes, because the quality of teaching, the attractiveness of learning and study opportunities, and the individual support available to young academics will be decisive in determining a university’s appeal to students.

This is why we see teaching as such an extremely important responsibility for a society in transition, and thus a mandate for excellence. We aim to set visible priorities and become “the place to be” both nationally and internationally in designated academic fields. Students who choose Bielefeld for these reasons must be given the opportunity to develop their skills in these areas during their studies – following the principles of knowledge-based, dedicated, and responsible practices.

We are laying the foundation to realize this vision.

With the model of the “Bielefeld Study Model,” we seek to combine collaboratively designed learning processes that account for the great variation in previous school education together with inspiring knowledge transfer using modern methods of teaching and studying.

A university education should also encompass laboratory-oriented and practical courses of study that nourish the desire for lifelong learning.

Strategic Areas

About

Prof. Dr. Dario Anselmetti: Dario Anselmetti has served as Vice Rector for Education and Teaching at Bielefeld University since October 2023.

As a Professor of Experimental Biophysics and Applied Nanosciences, he has been conducting research and teaching in Bielefeld’s Faculty of Physics since 2000.

After studying physics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, he completed his doctoral studies there in experimental physics. Following post-doctoral positions, including at the IBM research laboratory in Rüschlikon near Zurich and as a group leader in the field of nano-biophysics at the University of Basel, Dario Anselmetti worked for several years in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry. He then went on to compete his post-doctoral habilitation in experimental physics at the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel, after which he accepted his professorship at Bielefeld University.

From 2002–2012, he was the spokesperson for the German Research Foundation’s Collaborative Research Centre 613 “Physics of single-molecule processes and molecular recognition in organic systems.” He is the founder and director of the hands-on and experimental laboratory teutolab-physik and is a full member of the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste.

For more on Dario Anselmetti’s research and teaching, see his h omepage at the Faculty of Physics and on Wikipedia.