Prof. Dr. Eva Waller

Short vita

Prof. Dr. iur. Eva Waller has headed the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences since 1 January 2021. 

Before taking up the role, she had been employed since 2005 by the Bochum University of Applied Sciences as a Professor of Business Law in the Faculty of Business. In Bochum, she became the coordinator of the German-Spanish Bachelor of Business Administration degree program in 2006. From 2008 to 2010, she served as an Associate Dean, before becoming a Dean. In 2016, she became the Vice-President for Academic and International Affairs.

Eva Waller was born in Krefeld, near Düsseldorf, and studied law at the universities of Bayreuth and Göttingen after her high school graduation. In the period between her two state examinations in law, she completed the Joint European Master of Public Administration Program run by the universities of Speyer, Leiden and Rotterdam. 

While working as an academic assistant in the Department of Public Law and Public Economic Law at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Eva Waller obtained her doctorate under Prof. Dr. Ludwig Gramlich, on the topic of international law for regulated procurement. Subsequently, she was the head of the “Management Support, Human Resources and Law” unit at RKW Sachsen GmbH in Dresden, until 2005.