University Board

After obtaining his university entrance qualification, Frank Albe (born in 1964) studied Business Sciences and Politics in Braunschweig. Following his Intermediate Diploma (Vordiplom), he transferred to Göttingen, completing his  degree as a Graduate in Business Administration (Diplom-Kaufmann). After completing his doctorate, Prof. Albe moved to TUI GmbH & Co. KG, where he eventually became the head of the TUI Group's Investment Controlling and was responsible for tour operators in Central Europe  and hotel and resort investments.

Since the year 2000, Frank Albe has held a professorship in General Business Administration at PFH, specialising in Tourism Management and Controlling. In 2003, he was elected to the office of Vice-President. In autumn 2014, he was elected President of the University. In addition to the President's inherent authority to issue directives, he is responsible in particular for the areas of research and transfer of knowledge.

Anja Christina Lepach-Engelhardt (born 1975) studied psychology, specialising in clinical psychology, at the University of Bremen, where she completed her doctorate. Parallel to her doctorate, she completed postgraduate training as a clinical neuropsychologist (GNP) in Würzburg. Until 2010, she worked in the Paediatric Psychological Outpatient Clinic of the Centre for Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the University of Bremen. During this time, she was temporarily head of the neuropsychology department there.

From 2007, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Diagnostics, two years later she was module leader for Biological Psychology and since 2010 she has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen. In 2011, she was awarded the Berninghausen Prize for outstanding teaching.

Marc Siebert (born 1971) studied general mechanical engineering at the University of Kassel and worked for several years in development for various companies in the bicycle industry. From 2001 to 2008, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Materials Technology at the University of Kassel. At that time, he founded SPIN Siebert & Schörner GbR, a company for the development and manufacture of ultra-light bicycle frames and components made from fibre-reinforced plastics.

In 2006, he received his doctorate from the University of Kassel. Since then, he has held a two-year lectureship at the University of Kassel in the field of ‘Composite materials and material composites in the construction of sports equipment and rehabilitation aids’. He has been a professor at PFH since November 2008.