"It is a great honour and pleasure for me to be the new Rector of TU Bergakademie Freiberg and to be the first woman - in 260 years - to head this wonderful university," said Professor Jutta Emes. "But tradition also meets modernity at TUBAF. One point I would like to address is to promote a hub for artificial intelligence across all faculties." Jutta Emes also cited strengthening Europe as another focus of her work: "TUBAF is an international university and is very fortunate to be a member of an EU-funded European University Alliance. This is a huge opportunity. Anyone studying, researching or working in Freiberg has the opportunity to do so at eight partner universities."

On 6 February 2025, the Extended Senate of TU Bergakademie Freiberg elected Professor Jutta Emes as the first female rector in the history of the university for a term of five years. The Rector's inauguration with invited guests will follow in autumn with the ceremonial investiture and handover of the chain of office.

About the new Rector

Prof. Dr Jutta Emes held the Chair of Marketing & Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar between 2011 and 2025. From February 2022 to February 2023, she was interim head of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, before that, between 2014 and 2022, she was Vice Rector for Studies and Teaching, Vice President for Internationalisation and Digitalisation and finally Vice President for International Affairs, Diversity and Transfer.