President
E-mail: tessa.flatten [at] tu-dortmund.de

Prof. Dr. Tessa Flatten was elected Vice-Rector of TU Dortmund on July 3, 2020. As a member of the new rectorate, she assumed responsibility for the new International Affairs division on September 1, 2020.

Flatten has been a professor of Technology Management at TU Dortmund since 2015. Previously, the economist worked at RWTH Aachen. She maintains numerous international contacts, including in the USA, Asia, and Russia. For the past ten years, she has been a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Since 2017, she has been cooperating with St. Petersburg University, supporting the organization of a conference on digitalization, among other activities. At TU Dortmund, she is a member of the advisory board of CET and ITMC.

The International Affairs division, overseen by the Vice-Rector, encompasses all cross-faculty matters related to the internationalization of TU Dortmund, particularly the establishment of international strategic partnerships and support services for international guests on campus.