Michael Paulus New Head of Campus OWL's New York Office

New York (hsbi). Michael Paulus has taken over as executive director of the Campus OWL offices in New York City. Paulus is moving from Rostock International House at the University of Rostock to the Hudson River. He succeeds Katja Simons in office.

For his new role, the German philologist and historian has set himself the task of consolidating the ties between the five state universities in OWL and expanding their network on the North American continent. In particular, he plans to further strengthen existing exchange formats for scientists and students and intensify the dialogue with sponsors in Germany and the USA. “I would like to combine teaching and research as much as possible,” says Paulus.

Services for companies: internships, business start-ups, skilled labour placement, knowledge transfer

Additionally, he would like to advance existing contacts with US-American and Canadian companies and make new contacts. Paulus: “I want to be there for those companies from OWL that are supposed to benefit from the work of the New York office, e.g. by arranging internships for students, supporting business start-ups, finding skilled workers and promoting knowledge transfer.”

Michael Paulus also sees it as his task to engage in 'science diplomacy' so that the transatlantic relationships between OWL's universities and American universities and educational institutions that have grown over decades, can be maintained and expanded.

The five state OWL universities have been represented in New York since 2019

After studying German philology, history, sociology and philosophy at Bielefeld University, Freie Universität Berlin and New York City University, Michael Paulus has worked in academia in the US, China, Korea and Germany.

Founded in 2016, Campus OWL is a network of the five higher education institutions in OWL, Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI), Hochschule für Musik Detmold, TH OWL, Bielefeld University and Paderborn University. The New York office of the network was founded in 2019 and – just like the German Consulate and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations (UN) – is situated in the German House, opposite the UN headquarters in Manhattan, i.a. together with the DAAD's offices, the DFG offices and further German higher education institutions.