Ulrike Künkel

I am Ulrike Christine Künkel. I have been working full-time as a technical assistant at the TU Berlin for 29 years. I also got other degrees (state-certified technician (biotechnology) and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English Literature). In my work for the Staff Council, I would like to use experience with interdisciplinarity: Natural sciences and language are not mutually exclusive.

For the Technische Universität Berlin, I would like to see a culture of appreciation that looks at the entire university; a communication that involves all hierarchical levels equally. A culture that all members can trust, as it is characterized by objective openness. Building this trust requires courage, initially a lot of mediation work, but it will lead to more commitment and high-quality work everywhere. In this way, the TU would have a chance to create structures that are as little authoritarian as possible, but are characterized by shared excellence.