The Hochschule Niederrhein has appointed Dr. Aloys Hüttermann as honorary professor. The lawyer was proposed by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the Presidential Board followed this suggestion. The 49-year-old now received the certificate of appointment from university president Dr. Thomas Grünewald. "We are very pleased to be able to confer the honorary professorship on Dr. Aloys Hüttermann," Grünewald said as he handed over the certificate.

"I am very pleased to receive this honor and it shows the mutual bond I have with the university. Although neither my background nor the topics of my teaching belong to the core area of my faculty, I have felt very welcome and part of the team from the very beginning and thus happy to contribute," said Grünewald, who holds a doctorate in chemistry and has been a contract lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for many years.

Since the summer semester of 2014, he has been holding courses there in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes such as "Law for the Professional Practice of Engineers", "Legal Issues in Computer Science" or "Law and Technology". He is also currently involved in developing new courses in his subject area in the new Cyber Security Management courses at the Cyber Management Campus.

"His teaching evaluations are consistently positive. Students particularly appreciate the comprehensibility of the subject area, which is not at the core of their studies," reports Professor Dr. Jens Brandt, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

After his apprenticeship as a patent attorney, Hüttermann has been working since 2006 in the law firm he co-founded, Michalski, Hüttermann & Partner in Düsseldorf. His thematic fields of work are all fields of intellectual property, application or litigation proceedings, due diligence, clearance opinions and license agreements. Since 2013, Dr. Aloys Hüttermann has been included in the list of the world's 1000 best lawyers in the field of intellectual property by IAM Magazine.

The new honorary professor of the Hochschule Niederrhein is distinguished by his outstanding achievements in the practical application and development of scientific knowledge in professional practice. For example, he is the author of a book on the unitary patent system, co-editor of a commentary on patent law to be published in 2023, and co-author of a textbook on organic chemistry.