Office:
Renate Irle
Tel.: +49 (0)231 / 755-7577
Regina Israel
Tel.: +49 (0)231 / 755-7578
The responsibility of the prorector academic affairs includes all issues pertaining to teaching and studying at the university at large as well as continuing education and professional development, especially the quality of teaching, the structure of the university curriculum, the allocation of tuition funds and international student exchange.
Metin Tolan was born in Oldenburg (Holstein) in 1965. Between 1984 and 1989 he studied physics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, where he completed his PhD in 1993 and his Habilitation in 1998. His scientific career included several research stays in the United States. In 2001, Tolan was appointed to the Chair for Experimental Physics I at TU Dortmund. In the same year he also became head of the Institute for Accelerator Physics and Synchrotron Radiation. In this function, Tolan substantially contributed to DELTA, globally the only university-based synchrotron radiation source, which has become a highly frequented and sought-after research facility. Since 2003 Tolan has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science. From 2004 to 2008, he was TU Dortmund’s dean of the Faculty of Physics. He holds positions in several scientific advisory councils.
Tel.: +49(231) 755-7574