Vice President for Digital Transformation and Sustainability

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Krafczyk has been in office as Senior Vice President for Digitisation and Sustainability since 1 September 2023. He had already assumed this position on an interim basis since 1 August 2022. Prof. Krafczyk joined the Executive Board in April 2020: initially responsible for issues of digitisation and technology transfer.

Short profile

Professor Manfred Krafczyk was Professor for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Digital Engineering at the Institute for Computational Modeling in Civil Engineering at TU Braunschweig from October 2001 to September 2023. He led a research group dedicated to the development and application of numerical methods for the simulation of flows on parallel hardware as well as aspects of building informatics. The application of these methods ranges from microsystem technology and soil physics to aerodynamics and wind engineering.

Professor Krafczyk participated in several national and international scientific committees and commissions. For the design of the department of digitalization and sustainabililty, he has a wide range of experience, including as a long-standing member of the various IT committees of the Carolo-Wilhelmina and has helped shape their transformation.

His current responsibilities within the TU Braunschweig include:

Disciplinary and technical responsibility for the following organisational units:
- Gauß-IT-Zentrum,
- University Library,
- Designated office Digital Transformation and Sustainability (incl. Green Office)
- the administrative office of the Lower Saxony Centre for Climate Research (ZKfN),
- Designated office CISO,
- Data Protection Officer
Management / Moderation
- Sustainability Committee
- Strategy Commission,
- CIO Board,
- Advisory Board of the University Archives (on behalf of the President)
- University Library Steering Committee.

Climate Protection Officer
member of the Energy Advisory Board

Regional / supra-regional tasks and memberships:

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Energy Research of Centre of Lower Saxony (EFZN)

Memberships / Representative of TU Braunschweig in:

Task Force Sustainability CESAER
CIO Association
TU9-CIO Round Table
Association "Universities and scientific institutions in the metropolitan region e.V."
State University Conference (LHK)
- Standing Commission for Digital Transformation
- WG Governance Hochschule.digital Niedersachsen
International Sustainability Climate Network (ISCN)
Guest of the Digitalisation Working Group of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK)
HRK delegate to the
- European University Association (EUA)
- Task-and-Finish-Group-AI of the EUA.