Gesine Grande

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Gesine Grande (* 1964 in Leipzig ) is a German psychologist and health scientist and professor of psychology. In 2020 the Senate of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg elected her as President. From 2014 to 2019 she was the rector of the University for Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) in Leipzig.

education

Gesine Grande attended a polytechnic high school from 1971 and an extended high school in Leipzig from 1979 to 1983 , which she finished with the Abitur . She then began studying psychology at the University of Leipzig , which she completed in 1988 with a degree in psychology . She was awarded the Georg Mayer Prize of the University of Leipzig for her outstanding study results .

In 1997 Grande received his doctorate as "Doctor of Public Health" at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bielefeld University . For her doctoral thesis she was awarded the Dissertation Prize of the Westfälisch-Lippische Universitätsgesellschaft .

She obtained her habilitation in 2012 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig , and she received the Venia Legendi teaching qualification in the field of "Medical Psychology".

She has been a licensed psychological psychotherapist since 1999.

Professional practice

From 1988 to 1991, Grande worked as a research assistant at the Leipzig University Women's Clinic . After German reunification , she changed from 1991 to 1994 as a research assistant in various medical psychological and health science research projects at the University of Essen and the University of Bielefeld .

From 1995 to 2003 she worked as a research assistant and subsequently as a research assistant at the Faculty of Health Sciences, in the Social Epidemiology and Health System Design working group under the direction of the renowned Professor of Health Science Bernhard Badura at Bielefeld University.

In 2003 she was appointed professor of psychology for a C2 position at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences for Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK) in Leipzig. At the beginning of 2014 she accepted a call to the W3 professorship for prevention and health promotion at Faculty 11 at the University of Bremen .

Her scientific work includes the main research areas of health system analysis, patient orientation and participation, psychocardiology and cardiological rehabilitation. More recently, she and her working group have carried out various research projects in health promotion and prevention, with a focus on community health promotion, social disadvantage and the effects of neighborhood and living environment on the health of residents.

Seat of the rector of the HTWK Leipzig, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 132 , ( Geutebrück-Bau)

In the summer of 2014 Gesine Grande was elected as the seventh rector of the HTWK Leipzig for a term of 5 years - as the successor to Renate Lieckfeldt , who died in 2013 and whose office was now held by the then Vice-Rector Research Markus Krabbe . She took up her post as rector in the winter semester 2014/2015.

During her tenure, a number of university strategic projects were tackled and processed. Among other things, the university development plan "HTWK2025" was drawn up and approved. Part of the implementation was, among other things, the strengthening of mathematical and scientific basic training in the various courses, the merging of the existing courses in industrial engineering and a reform of the faculty structure, in which several smaller faculties were merged into larger ones. It was able to acquire a foundation of the Deutsche Telekom AG which is unique in Germany in terms of funding period and scope, which resulted in the establishment of a new faculty at the HTWK Leipzig. Since the foundation faculty "Digital Transformation" was re-established on October 1st, 2019, HTWK Leipzig has been divided into six faculties. Gesine Grande's term of office ended on September 30, 2019. Previously, the Extended Senate of the HTWK Leipzig had elected the financial scientist Mark Mietzner from the private Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen as the new rector (in office: October 1, 2019).

University and Science Management (selection)

  • Rector of the HTWK Leipzig (2014-2019)
  • Deputy Chairwoman of the Saxon State Rectors' Conference, Spokeswoman for the Saxon HAW (2018-2019)
  • Member of the Senate of the University Rectors' Conference and Permanent Commission for Research and Young Scientists of the HRK (2018-2019)
  • Board of Trustees of the HTWK Leipzig Foundation and Board of Directors of the Friends of the HTWK Leipzig (2014–2019)
  • Deputy Chair of the University Council of the University of Telecommunications in Leipzig (since 2014)
  • Member of the Board of Trustees Research and Transfer Center Leipzig eV at the HTWK Leipzig (since 2011)
  • Member of the Senate Commission for Scientific Development at the HTWK Leipzig (2009–2013)
  • Dean of the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at HTWK Leipzig (2012–2013)

Other mandates

  • Member of the supervisory board of Leipziger Messe
  • Climate Council of the City of Leipzig (since 2016)
  • Advisory Board for Sustainable Leipzig (since 2019)
  • Child and Family Advisory Board of the City of Leipzig (2007-2013)
  • Advisory Board VNG AG (2014-2019)
  • Advisory Board of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (2016-2019)

Memberships and awards (selection)

  • German Society for Psychology
  • German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases (DGPR), member of the Presidium 2010–2015
  • German Society for Rehabilitation Sciences (DGRW), board member 2009–2018
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the specialist journal "Die Rehabilitation"
  • 1988 Georg Mayer Prize from the University of Leipzig
  • 1997 Dissertation Prize of the Westphalian-Lippian University Society

Publications (selection)

  • Schulz, M., Romppel, M., Grande, G. (2018). Built environment and health: A systematic review of studies in Germany. Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom) , 40 (1), pp. 8-15. DOI: 10.1093 / pubmed / fdw141
  • Igel, U., Romppel, M., Baar, J., Brähler, E., & Grande, G. (2016). Association between parental socio-economic status and childhood weight status and the role of urbanicity. Public Health, 139 , 209-211. doi: 10.1016 / j.puhe.2016.06.013
  • Lipek, T., Igel, U., Gausche, R., Kiess, W., & Grande, G. (2015). Obesogenic environments: Environmental approaches to obesity prevention. Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 28 (5-6), 485-495. doi: 10.1515 / jpem-2015-0127
  • Schweier, R., Romppel, M., Richter, C., Hoberg, E., Hahmann, H., Schwerwinski, I., Kosmutzky, G. & Grande, G. (2014). A web-based peer-modeling intervention aimed at lifestyle changes in patients with coronary heart disease and chronic back pain: sequential controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research 16 (7), e177. doi: 10.2196 / jmir.3434.
  • Grande, G., Romppel, M. & Barth, J. (2012). Association between type D personality and prognosis in patients with cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 43 (3), 299-310. doi: 10.1007 / s12160-011-9339-0.
  • Grande, G., Romppel, M., Vesper, J.-M., Schubmann, R., Glaesmer, H. & Herrmann-Lingen, C. (2011). Type D personality and all-cause mortality in cardiac patients - Data from a German cohort study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73 (7), 548-556. doi: 10.1097 / PSY.0b013e318227a9bc
  • Igel, U., Brähler, E., & Grande, G. (2010). The influence of perceived discrimination on health in migrants. [The influence of experiences of discrimination on the health of migrants] Psychiatrische Praxis, 37 (4), 183–190. doi: 10.1055 / s-0029-1223508

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senate of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg elects Prof. Dr. Gesine Grande as President. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Senate of the HTWK Leipzig adopts a university development plan. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Supervisory Board | Leipzig Fair -. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Grande, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist, professor of psychology, rector
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig