Prof. Dr. Jeanne Rubner

Career

Jeanne Rubner is the first Vice-President Global Communication and Public engagement at TUM. She has been a science journalist for several decades and started her career as an editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. From 2012 to 2022 she headed the science and education desk at Bayerischer Rundfunk. Jeanne Rubner holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from TUM’s Physics Department and has been teaching science communication at the Hochschule für Politik since 2017. She is author of several books on science, politics, and education. She was awarded the Universitas Prize for Science Journalism from the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Foundation and the Medal for Science Writing from the German Physical Society.

Functions

• Vice-President Global Communication & Public Engagement and Director Corporate Communications Center at TUM (since 2022) 
• Head of Science and Education Desk at German Public Broadcasting Munich (2012-2022) 
• Senior Editor at Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich (2009-2012) 
• Editor for Politics and Science, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (1991-2009)

Awards

• Digital Journalism Fellowship Hamburg Media School (2020/21)
• Medal for Science Publishing of the German Physical Society (DPG) (2019)
• Universitas Prize for Science Journalism of the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Foundation (2009)
• Medal Bene Merenti of the University of Regensburg (2007)