Eva-Maria Beck-Meuth

Eva-Maria Beck-Meuth is a German physicist and academic administrator serving as the president of the TH Aschaffenburg since 2019. TH Aschaffenburg is a Technische Hochschule (university of applied science) in Aschaffenburg, Germany, and is one of Germany's youngest TH universities (founded 1995).

Professional life Eva-Maria Beck-Meuth studied Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München during 1979–1984, and graduated with a Diplom (German qualification similar to a Master's). After graduating, she moved to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. After two years, she returned to Germany, and obtained her doctorate in Experimental Physics from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1988. Her thesis was entitled "Nuclear shapes at very high spins, an experimental study in rare-earth nuclei". and Alcatel Space Operations in Darmstadt.

Beck-Meuth's appointment to president (on March 15, 2019) coincided with the renaming of the university from Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften (University of applied science) to TH Aschaffenburg. Her predecessor in the position was Wilfried Diwischek In 2024, she was reelected to a further six year term.

During Beck-Meuth's tenure, the number of students has increased to about 3,500, and a new midwifery program has been launched. In the fall of 2025, a new degree program in social work will begin.

Personal life

Beck-Meuth is an alumna of the Studienstiftung.