The American Council on Germany, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the University of Cologne New York Office cordially invite you to a Discussion and Luncheon on “Responding to New Realities: Geopolitics and the Future of Scientific Cooperation” with Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee, President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Rector of the University of Cologne.
Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee completed his studies in English, Biology, and Education at RWTH Aachen University in 1997. He is a fully qualified secondary school teacher. In 2000, he received his doctorate at the University of Bonn, where he also completed his habilitation in 2003. In the same year, he was appointed as Professor of English Linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Professor Dr. Mukherjee’s research focuses on computer-based corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, English syntax, and variety research. Numerous research and teaching visits have taken him to various universities abroad.
Professor Dr. Mukherjee served as President of JLU Giessen from 2009 to 2023. Prior to that, he served as a member of the Presidential Board as First Vice President. Since October 2023, he is Rector of the University of Cologne. From 2012 to 2019, he also held the office of Vice President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and since 2020 he has been the honorary President of the DAAD. He is a member of a number of scientific advisory boards and boards of trustees, including for various non-university research institutions. For his academic achievements and his activities in the internationalization of higher education, he has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) of Iasi, Romania, and by Tbilisi State University (TSU) in Georgia.
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