About the Faculty

Organisation and Management

Faculty of Science
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	Dean for Studies: Prof. Dr. Peter Reinhold		Dean: Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Warnecke		Vice Dean: Prof. Dr. Helmut Heseker
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Management Board: Dr. Christian Hennig & Dr. Frank Lohse
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Department of Chemistry		Department of Physics		Department of Sports & Health
Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Gerald Henkel		Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Torsten Meier		Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Norbert Olivier
Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry Chemical Engineering Didactics of Chemistry		Applied Physics Experimental Physics Theoretical Physics Didactics of Physics		Sports & Education Exercise & Training Sports Medicine Sports & Society Nutrition & Consumer Educatio

Introduction and Guiding Principle

Introduction

The natural sciences form an important cornerstone of modern industrial and high-tech societies. Together with the disciplines of technical application they have a key role to play in the process of technological and social change. The results of scientific research and their wide-ranging applications create the basis for innovations that impact all areas of life in our society. And so they contribute substantially to securing the existential basis of the society in which we live. Responsible participation in this social and technological change calls for a comprehensive education and training in the natural sciences. This not only covers delivery of the knowledge and methods of the natural sciences, from principles all the way through to the latest research findings. It also involves a willingness and ability to subject the opportunities and limitations of scientific insights to critical examination and to use them in technological applications in a responsible manner. By asking and discussing questions on the future prospects and perspectives of human societies, an educational background in the natural sciences is able to contribute to advancing the development of our society. This is why the creation of fundamental competences in science and technology is of outstanding significance to a society of the 21st century.

Guiding Principle

Within the University of Paderborn, the Faculty of Natural Sciences and its activities serve to strengthen and advance the university's profile as a "University for the Information Society". These activities build on a guiding principle that calls for:

contributions based on scientific principles and knowledge to be made in theory and application to the formation of a modern information society and the advancement of science;
scientific findings to be implemented with responsibility;
human health to be protected and promoted;
the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities to be delivered through teaching, studies and continuing training; and
developments in these fields to be further advanced – also and in particular in and for the region.

When performing these tasks, it is important, in particular, that those new opportunities are used which arise when networking the wide range of programmes, services and activities offered in the interdisciplinary fields of nutrition and consumer education, sports medicine and sports science with those offered in the disciplines of chemistry and physics.

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