Ruhr University Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum, in German Ruhr-Universität Bochum and usually abbreviated RUB, is a public research university in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and with about 42,718 students in 2014 it ranks among the largest universities in the country.波鸿鲁尔大学（Ruhr-Universität Bochum），通常缩写为 RUB，是位于德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦州波鸿的一所公立研究型大学，2014 年约有 42,718 名学生，是德国规模最大的大学之一。

Founded in 1962 and opened for teaching in 1965, it was the first new public university created in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War, and it was laid out as a single compact campus on the Querenburg plateau south of the city centre.该校于 1962 年创办、1965 年开始授课，是第二次世界大战后德意志联邦共和国新建的第一所公立大学，校址按一体化紧凑校园的构想建在市中心以南的克伦堡高地上。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 402nd, it is joint 261st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it stood in the 251-300 band of the 2026 Times Higher Education ranking, it is 364th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, it lies in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and OpenAlex credits it with 131,738 research works and 8,637,908 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 402，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 261，2026 年该排名中处于 251 至 300 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 364，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 名区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 131,738 项、累计被引 8,637,908 次。

History

• On 18 July 1961 the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia decided in favour of Bochum as the site of a new university, which was to become the first complete new university built in the Federal Republic of Germany after the war.1961 年 7 月 18 日，北莱茵-威斯特法伦州议会决定把新大学的校址定在波鸿，这所大学日后成为战后德意志联邦共和国第一座从零建起的新大学。

• A special building office for the new university was set up by the ministry on 15 September 1961, and it became the state building authority responsible for the whole construction programme on the Querenburg site.1961 年 9 月 15 日，州部委为这所新大学设立了专门的营建机构，它后来成为负责克伦堡校址全部建设计划的州立建筑管理部门。

• In May 1962 the founding committee submitted a draft structure plan for research and teaching in eighteen departments, and in December 1962 the recommendations for the development of the University of Bochum appeared.1962 年 5 月，筹备委员会提交了按 18 个学部组织教学与科研的结构规划草案；同年 12 月，《波鸿大学建设建议书》问世。

• An open nationwide competition for the urban design of the campus was announced on 29 June 1962 with eight international architects invited, and on 14 February 1963 the jury chose among 86 entries the design of the Düsseldorf office Hentrich and Petschnigg, which won the first prize of 50,000 marks.1962 年 6 月 29 日，校方发布了面向全国征集校园城市设计的公开竞赛，并邀请了八位国际建筑师；1963 年 2 月 14 日，评委会从 86 份方案中选出杜塞尔多夫亨特里希与佩奇尼希事务所的设计，其获得五万马克的头奖。

• A joint planning office combining that firm with staff of the state building authority opened on 1 April 1963, the first full professor was appointed on 17 April 1963, and in February 1964 the professors then appointed met to organise the young university.1963 年 4 月 1 日，由该事务所与州立建筑管理部门人员组成的联合设计室成立；1963 年 4 月 17 日任命了第一位正教授；1964 年 2 月，已获聘任的教授们集会筹组这所年轻的大学。

• Construction on the campus itself began on 2 January 1964 with two institute buildings for the engineering sciences, which were finished on 30 June 1965, and the huge ceiling slabs were mass-produced on site at a rate of twelve a day.校园本体的施工于 1964 年 1 月 2 日以两栋工程学研究所大楼起步，1965 年 6 月 30 日完工；沉重的楼板构件曾在校内现场预制，日产量达十二块。

• The assembly of professors elected the first rector and the deans on 29 and 30 April 1965, the university was ceremonially opened on 30 June 1965, and teaching began on 2 November 1965 in the humanities and social sciences and in some of the natural sciences.1965 年 4 月 29 日与 30 日，教授大会选出首任校长与各学院院长；1965 年 6 月 30 日举行建校典礼；同年 11 月 2 日，人文与社会科学以及部分自然科学学科正式开课。

• On 1 October 1967 the Essen university hospital was incorporated into the young university and remained part of it until 1972, having previously been the second clinic of the University of Münster.1967 年 10 月 1 日，埃森大学医院并入这所年轻的大学，并作为其组成部分直到 1972 年，该院此前的身份是明斯特大学的第二附属医院。

• On 25 June 1969 the convention adopted a new constitution, under which the university received a rectorate as its governing body and a university parliament seated on the principle of quarter parity as its legislative organ.1969 年 6 月 25 日，大学会议通过新章程，依此设立校务委员会作为领导机构，并设立按四分之一对等原则分配席位的大学议会作为立法机关。

• The Botanical Garden of the university was opened on 11 June 1971, the second refectory followed on 8 October 1971, and in November 1972 the nine-kilometre Universitätsstraße was opened with 24 bridges carrying it through the campus.该校植物园于 1971 年 6 月 11 日启用，第二食堂于同年 10 月 8 日启用；1972 年 11 月，全长九公里的大学路建成通车，共架设 24 座桥梁穿越校园。

• The Uni-Center with its shops and services opened on 17 October 1973, and the central University Library at the Forumsplatz was opened on 16 October 1974, becoming the heart of the campus.设有商店与服务设施的大学中心于 1973 年 10 月 17 日启用；位于论坛广场的中央大学图书馆于 1974 年 10 月 16 日开馆，后来成为整个校园的核心。

• On 1 October 1975 the university set up Unikontakt as a liaison office between the university and industry, an early example of the technology transfer work for which the Ruhr region later became known.1975 年 10 月 1 日，该校设立“大学联络处”，作为大学与产业界之间的联络机构，这是鲁尔区日后以技术转移见长的早期例证。

• On 25 January 1977 the Bochumer Modell of medical training began in cooperation with hospitals throughout the region, and this partnership became the University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum in 1998.1977 年 1 月 25 日，与鲁尔区各地医院合作的“波鸿医学教育模式”启动，这一合作体系于 1998 年正式成为波鸿鲁尔大学附属医院。

• A new constitution of 20 August 1984 replaced the university parliament with a convention once more and renamed the basic organisational unit of the university from department to faculty.1984 年 8 月 20 日的新章程再次以大学会议取代大学议会，并把学校的基本组织单位由“学部”改称“学院”。

• On 20 March 1998 the university founded RUBITEC as its research and exploitation company, and on 13 April 1999 it set up the Academy of the Ruhr University for continuing education, which became a limited company in 2001.1998 年 3 月 20 日，该校成立技术转移公司 RUBITEC；1999 年 4 月 13 日，又设立波鸿鲁尔大学继续教育学院，该机构于 2001 年改组为有限责任公司。

• A further constitution came into force on 27 March 2002, abolishing the convention and transferring its powers to the senate and the enlarged senate, and on 25 October 2007 a new constitution created an external university council.又一部章程于 2002 年 3 月 27 日生效，废止大学会议并把其职权移交参议会与扩大参议会；2007 年 10 月 25 日通过的新章程则设立了由校外人士组成的大学理事会。

• The university was one of the first in Germany to replace the old Diplom and Magister degrees with the two-cycle bachelor's and master's system, and its teaching has been organised on that structure since the Bologna reforms.该校是德国最早以两阶段学士与硕士体系取代旧有文凭与硕士学位的大学之一，自博洛尼亚改革以来其教学便按这一结构组织。

• The Alfried Krupp school laboratory opened on 26 February 2004, the Ruhr University Research School began work on 1 November 2006 and the State Language Institute was transferred into the university on 1 January 2007.阿尔弗里德·克虏伯中学生实验室于 2004 年 2 月 26 日开放；波鸿鲁尔大学研究学院于 2006 年 11 月 1 日开始运作；州立语言学院于 2007 年 1 月 1 日划归该校。

• On 12 March 2007 Bochum, Dortmund and Duisburg-Essen founded the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr, the first three interdisciplinary Research Departments were created on 12 January 2009 and the Professional School of Education followed on 1 September 2010.2007 年 3 月 12 日，波鸿、多特蒙德与杜伊斯堡-埃森三校组建“鲁尔都市圈大学联盟”；2009 年 1 月 12 日首批三个跨学科研究部成立；2010 年 9 月 1 日又设立教育专业学院。

• After the state parliament approved tuition fees on 18 September 2006 the university charged 500 euros per semester from the summer of 2007, but the fees were abolished again in 2010 and students now pay only a social contribution.2006 年 9 月 18 日州议会批准收取学费后，该校自 2007 年夏季学期起每学期收取 500 欧元；但这些学费已于 2010 年再度取消，学生如今只需缴纳一笔社会性杂费。

• In recent years the university has added the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, opened in December 2025, the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security and the Research Center Future Energy Materials and Systems, and in October 2026 its Ruhr Innovation Lab consortium with TU Dortmund won funding in the Excellence Strategy.近年该校先后设立社会科学与人文学院（2025 年 12 月启用）、可信数据科学与安全研究中心、未来能源材料与系统研究中心；2026 年 10 月，其与多特蒙德工业大学组建的“鲁尔创新实验室”联合体在卓越战略中获得资助。

Academics

• The university is organised in about twenty faculties that cover Protestant and Catholic theology, law, economics, medicine, the humanities, the social sciences and the whole range of the natural and engineering sciences.该校设有约二十个学院，涵盖新教神学与天主教神学、法律、经济学、医学、人文学科、社会科学，以及自然科学与工程科学的完整谱系。

• Among them are the faculties of Protestant Theology, Catholic Theology, Law, Economics, Medicine, Philology, History, Philosophy and Education, Social Science, Psychology, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.其中包括新教神学院、天主教神学院、法学院、经济学院、医学院、语文学学院、历史学院、哲学与教育学院、社会科学学院、心理学院、土木工程学院、机械工程学院，以及电气工程与信息技术学院。

• The remaining faculties are Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, Geosciences, Sport Science, East Asian Studies and the Faculty of Management and Economics in the field of health care.其余学院为数学学院、物理与天文学院、化学与生物化学学院、生物与生物技术学院、地球科学学院、体育科学学院、东亚研究学院，以及医疗管理领域的相关学院。

• Teaching is offered in a very large number of study programmes, and the university was among the first in Germany to convert its whole course catalogue to the bachelor's and master's structure after the Bologna declaration of 1999.该校开设的学位课程数量极多，并且在 1999 年博洛尼亚宣言之后，是德国最早把全部课程目录改为学士与硕士结构的大学之一。

• The Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation, known as ICAMS, is one of the university's flagship research institutions and works on materials modelling and simulation together with the materials research department and the Ruhr region's steel industry.跨学科先进材料模拟中心是该校的旗舰研究机构之一，与材料研究部以及鲁尔区钢铁产业共同开展材料建模与仿真研究。

• The International Graduate School of Neuroscience offers a structured doctoral programme in neuroscience and systems biology and brings together the medical, biological and psychological faculties of the university.国际神经科学研究生院提供结构化的神经科学与系统生物学博士培养项目，并联合该校的医学、生物学与心理学各学院。

• The Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict conducts research on humanitarian law and runs the master's programme in humanitarian action in cooperation with a network of European universities.国际法中的和平与武装冲突研究所从事人道法研究，并与欧洲多所大学的网络合作开设人道行动硕士课程。

• The Center for Religious Studies, known as CERES, brings together the two theological faculties and the study of religion across the humanities, and the university also hosts one of the leading Hegel archives in the world.宗教研究中心把该校两个神学院与人文领域各宗教学科联结起来；该校同时设有世界领先的黑格尔档案馆之一。

• The Centre for Foreign Language Education, established on 8 November 2005, teaches a wide range of languages to students of all faculties, and after the incorporation of the State Language Institute in 2007 the university became one of the largest language-teaching institutions in Germany.大学外语教学中心成立于 2005 年 11 月 8 日，面向各学院学生教授多种语言；2007 年州立语言学院并入后，该校成为德国规模最大的语言教学机构之一。

• The Ruhr University Research School, launched on 1 November 2006, provides structured doctoral training across the disciplines and was one of the first campus-wide graduate schools in Germany.波鸿鲁尔大学研究学院于 2006 年 11 月 1 日启动，为各学科提供结构化的博士培养，是德国最早的覆盖全校的研究生院之一。

• The Professional School of Education, founded on 1 September 2010, coordinates teacher education for the whole university and works with schools across the Ruhr region on practical training placements for student teachers.教育专业学院成立于 2010 年 9 月 1 日，统筹全校的教师教育工作，并与鲁尔区各地中小学合作，为学生教师安排教学实习。

• The university library, opened at the Forumsplatz in 1974, is the central library of the campus and works with a network of departmental libraries serving the individual faculties and institutes.该校图书馆 1974 年在论坛广场开馆，是校园的中央图书馆，并与服务各学院与研究所的系图书馆网络协同运作。

• The university's medical faculty, which follows the Bochumer Modell of cooperation with regional hospitals, operates with the University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum and trains physicians for the whole Ruhr region.该校医学院沿用与区域医院合作的波鸿医学教育模式，与波鸿鲁尔大学附属医院共同运作，为整个鲁尔区培养医生。

• The Alfried Krupp school laboratory of 2004 gives secondary school pupils the chance to carry out experiments in chemistry, physics and biology, and it was one of the first such laboratories in Germany.2004 年设立的阿尔弗里德·克虏伯中学生实验室让中学生有机会亲手进行化学、物理与生物实验，是德国最早的一批同类实验室之一。

• The Faculty of East Asian Studies, unique among German universities for combining language, economics and political science, offers degrees on China, Japan and Korea and maintains partnerships with universities across East Asia.东亚研究学院在德国大学中以把语言、经济学与政治学结合起来而独树一帜，开设有关中国、日本与韩国的学位课程，并与东亚多所大学保持合作。

• Research at the university is organised partly in interdisciplinary Research Departments, the first three of which were created on 12 January 2009, and in the Clusters of Excellence RESOLV and CASA funded in the national Excellence Strategy.该校的科研部分以跨学科研究部组织，首批三个研究部于 2009 年 1 月 12 日成立；此外还有在国家卓越战略中获得资助的卓越集群 RESOLV 与 CASA。

Campus

• Ruhr University Bochum is a single-campus university on the Querenburg plateau south of Bochum city centre, planned in the 1960s as a compact campus in which all faculties lie within walking distance of one another.波鸿鲁尔大学是一所单一校园大学，校址位于波鸿市中心以南的克伦堡高地，1960 年代规划为紧凑式校园，各学院彼此步行可达。

• The campus design by the Düsseldorf architects Hentrich and Petschnigg was described as a harbour of knowledge, with functional buildings grouped along axes and connected by covered walkways in the style typical of German university building in the 1960s.由杜塞尔多夫建筑师亨特里希与佩奇尼希设计的校园被称为“知识之港”，功能性建筑沿轴线成组布置，并以连廊相连，呈现 1960 年代德国大学建筑的典型风格。

• The central forum of the campus contains the Auditorium Maximum lecture hall complex, the central University Library and the refectories, and it functions as the meeting point of the whole university.校园的中心论坛区集中了最大的阶梯教室群、中央大学图书馆与各食堂，是整所大学的会聚之处。

• The nine-kilometre Universitätsstraße of 1972 runs through the campus on 24 bridges, and the university has its own metro station on the Bochum city railway network, which links it directly with the city centre.1972 年建成的九公里长的大学路以 24 座桥梁穿越校园；该校在波鸿城市轻轨网络上设有专属车站，与市中心直接连通。

• The Botanical Garden, opened in 1971, lies at the southern edge of the campus and includes a tropical house and, since 1990, a Chinese garden laid out with the help of the university's East Asian partners.植物园于 1971 年开放，位于校园南缘，园内设有热带温室，并自 1990 年起辟有一座在中国合作伙伴协助下建造的中式园林。

• The original refectory of 1965 now serves as the BlueBox of the neighbouring Bochum University of Applied Sciences, while the two newer refectories remain in use by the students and staff of the university.1965 年建成的第一座食堂如今是邻近的波鸿应用技术大学的“蓝盒子”楼，两座较新的食堂则仍由该校师生使用。

• The medical faculty works with hospitals across the Ruhr region, and its main university hospital stands in the Bochum district of Langendreer, some kilometres east of the campus.医学院与鲁尔区各地医院合作，其主要附属医院位于波鸿东部的朗根德雷尔区，距校园数公里。

• New teaching and research buildings continue to be added to the campus, among them the research centres opened in 2025 and the replacement of the natural science building NA, whose foundation stone was laid in October 2024.新的教学与研究建筑仍在持续加入校园，其中包括 2025 年启用的多座研究中心，以及自然科学楼 NA 的重建工程，其奠基仪式于 2024 年 10 月举行。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Ruhr University Bochum is placed 402nd, and it is joint 261st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, having stood in the 251-300 band in 2026.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，波鸿鲁尔大学位列第 402；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 261，而 2026 年它处于 251 至 300 名区间。

• It is 364th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and lies in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which places it among the stronger research universities of Germany.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中该校位列第 364，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301 至 400 名区间，这使其跻身德国实力较强的一批研究型大学之列。

• OpenAlex records 131,738 research works and 8,637,908 citations for the university, with particularly high output in the materials, medical and natural sciences.OpenAlex 统计该校有研究成果 131,738 项、累计被引 8,637,908 次，其中材料科学、医学与自然科学的产出尤为突出。

• Two of the university's projects, the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV on solvation and CASA on large-scale cyber security, have secured funding in the national Excellence Strategy, RESOLV in a third funding phase.该校的两个项目，即研究溶剂化问题的卓越集群 RESOLV 与面向大规模网络安全的卓越集群 CASA，均在国家卓越战略中获得资助，其中 RESOLV 已进入第三期。

• In October 2026 the university and TU Dortmund won approval for the Ruhr Innovation Lab as a Consortium of Excellence within the Excellence Strategy, the most recent sign of its research standing.2026 年 10 月，该校与多特蒙德工业大学组建的“鲁尔创新实验室”在卓越战略中获批为卓越联合体，这是其科研水平的最新佐证。

• Ruhr University Bochum is a member of the German Research Foundation and, with TU Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, forms the University Alliance Ruhr, which coordinates research and teaching across the western Ruhr region.波鸿鲁尔大学是德国研究联合会的成员，并与多特蒙德工业大学、杜伊斯堡-埃森大学共同组成鲁尔大学联盟，在鲁尔区西部统筹科研与教学。

• Its reputation rests in part on being the first new public university of the Federal Republic and on the unusually broad span of its twenty faculties, which combine two theological faculties with engineering, medicine and the sciences.该校的声望部分来自它是联邦德国第一所新建公立大学，也来自其约二十个学院异常宽广的覆盖范围，把两个神学院与工程、医学及自然科学结合在一起。

• Research at the International Graduate School of Neuroscience, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation, the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict and the Center for Religious Studies has given the university a strong international profile.国际神经科学研究生院、跨学科先进材料模拟中心、国际法中的和平与武装冲突研究所与宗教研究中心的研究，为该校树立了鲜明的国际形象。

• The university's cooperation with the steel, energy and engineering industries of the Ruhr has produced an especially close relationship between research and industrial application, and its technology transfer company RUBITEC has supported this since 1998.该校与鲁尔区钢铁、能源与工程产业的合作，使基础研究与工业应用之间的关系格外紧密，其技术转移公司 RUBITEC 自 1998 年以来一直为此提供支持。

Student life

• Student services are provided by the Akademisches Förderungswerk, which runs the refectories and halls of residence on campus and administers the state study grants for the whole region.学生服务由大学资助机构承担，它经营校园内的食堂与学生宿舍，并统筹管理整个地区的国家助学金事务。

• Students pay only a social contribution each semester rather than tuition fees, and the semester ticket included in that contribution gives them free travel on public transport throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.学生每学期只缴纳社会性杂费而不必缴学费，这笔杂费中包含的学期交通票使他们可以在整个北莱茵-威斯特法伦州免费乘坐公共交通。

• The general students' committee publishes a student newspaper that first appeared in 1967 and is described as the oldest continuously published student newspaper in Germany.全校学生委员会出版的《波鸿学生报》自 1967 年创刊以来持续发行，被称为德国历史最悠久的学生报纸。

• The university sports programme of the Hochschulsport offers students a wide choice of sports from rowing and swimming to climbing and dance, and the campus has its own sports grounds and gymnasia.大学体育中心的高校体育项目为学生提供从赛艇、游泳到攀岩、舞蹈的多种运动选择，校园内建有专属的运动场地与体育馆。

• More than a hundred student societies and groups operate on campus, ranging from subject-based associations and debating societies to choirs, orchestras and student theatre companies.校园内有百余个学生社团与小组在活动，既有各学科的专业协会与辩论社，也有合唱团、管弦乐团与学生剧团。

• Cultural life in the city and the university is closely intertwined, and the university regularly takes part in the International Film Festival Bochum and in the cultural programme of the Ruhr region as European Capital of Culture in 2010.城市的文娱生活与大学的校园生活紧密交织，该校常年参与波鸿国际电影节，也参与鲁尔区作为 2010 年欧洲文化之都的文化项目。

• The Botanical Garden and the ring of green spaces around the campus serve as places of study and recreation for students, and the campus paths are widely used for walking and cycling between lectures.植物园与环绕校园的绿地是学生学习与休憩的场所，校园道路也被师生广泛用于课间步行与骑行。

• The close integration of the campus with the engineering and health institutions of the Ruhr gives students unusual access to internships, project work with companies and clinical placements in the region's hospitals.校园与鲁尔区工程及医疗机构高度融合，使学生能够以少见的方式获得实习机会、与企业的项目合作，以及该地区医院内的临床见习。

Notable people

• Norbert Lammert, who studied political and social sciences at Bochum and served as President of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2017, is the university's best known political alumnus.诺贝特·拉默特曾在波鸿学习政治学与社会科学，并于 2005 年至 2017 年担任德国联邦议院议长，是该校最知名的政界校友。

• Kurt Biedenkopf, who was rector of the university from 1967 to 1969 before becoming Minister-President of Saxony, is counted among the figures who shaped the young institution.库尔特·比登科普夫在出任萨克森州州长之前，曾于 1967 年至 1969 年担任该校校长，被视为塑造这所年轻大学的人物之一。

• Andreas Floer, the mathematician whose work on the Floer homology opened a new field in geometry and topology, studied mathematics at the university and is remembered as one of its most brilliant graduates.以弗洛尔同调开创几何与拓扑学新领域的数学家安德烈亚斯·弗洛尔曾在该校攻读数学，被视为其最杰出的毕业生之一。

• Hans Mommsen, one of the twentieth century's leading historians of the German resistance to Nazism, was professor of modern history at the university from 1968 until his retirement in 1996.20 世纪研究德国反纳粹抵抗运动的重要历史学家汉斯·莫姆森，自 1968 年起在该校任近代史教授，直至 1996 年退休。

• Klaus Schaller, professor of historical and systematic pedagogy from 1965 to 1990, was among the first academics appointed to the university and helped to build both his faculty and the institution itself.1965 年至 1990 年任历史与系统教育学教授的克劳斯·沙勒，是该校最早聘任的一批学者之一，参与了本学院乃至整所大学的初创建设。

• Maximilian Reinelt, the rower who won an Olympic gold medal in the men's eight in 2012 and who died in 2018, studied medicine at the university while competing at the highest level of his sport.2012 年在男子八人艇项目夺得奥运金牌、后于 2018 年去世的赛艇运动员马克西米利安·赖内尔特，在运动员生涯巅峰期同时在该校攻读医学。

• Wolff Schmiegel, professor of medicine at the university, is known for his work on the early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer and has led major clinical trials from the university hospital.该校医学教授沃尔夫·施米格尔以结直肠癌早期发现与治疗的研究著称，主持过由大学医院开展的多项重要临床试验。

• Burkhard Dick, professor of ophthalmology and head of the university eye clinic, is recognised internationally for his work on laser and minimally invasive cataract surgery.该校眼科学教授、大学眼科医院院长布克哈德·迪克，以其在激光与微创白内障手术方面的研究获得国际认可。

• Among the university's members are also a large number of engineers, scientists and physicians who have shaped the transformation of the Ruhr from coal and steel to research, health care and technology.该校成员中还有大批工程师、科学家与医生，他们共同推动了鲁尔区从煤钢时代向研究、医疗与科技领域的转型。

• The student body has produced Olympic and world champions, especially in rowing and athletics, and the university's sport science faculty has trained many of the coaches of German national teams.该校学生中走出了多位奥运会与世锦赛冠军，尤以赛艇与田径项目为主；其体育科学学院也为德国多支国家队培养了大批教练。