Dr. Muriel Helbig is president of the Technische Hochschule Lübeck and has served as vice president of the DAAD since 1 January 2020.
She was born in Washington, DC in 1975 and grew up in Germany, Lebanon and the USA before she began studying psychology at the University of Potsdam in 1994. She subsequently completed her doctorate in an international German Research Foundation (DFG) research training group at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (2006). Her professional stations led her via graduate funding at the University of Jena (2006-2009) to the Bauhaus University of Weimar, where she was Head of International Relations (2009-2014).