Andreas Frey is a German economical scientist and Rector of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science for the period 2013 – 2019.
Background
Andreas Frey grew up in Geislingen and took „Abitur“ at the Michelberg-Gymnasium before studying at the University of Wisconsin, United States of America, and at the University of Ulm, where he was awarded his doctorate (Doctor of Natural Science) After a post-doc at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and further research activities in the same city he returned to Germany to take up a post as a systems engineer at Siemens AG.
Career
In 2004 he was awarded the professorship of Economic Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, where he taught until 2013. He was also Dean of Education and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Science, and headed a working group on „International Strategy“. Further, he was spokesman for the Innovation Centre for Internationalisation and representative for China, organising the German-Chinese Symposium as well as China and Japan Weeks in Osnabrueck.
In April 2013 he was elected Rector of the HfWU for a period of six years, as successor of Werner Ziegler.
He took office on 1 October 2013.