By order of the Chancellor, the GEO building will be closed from March 25 until April 19 except for emergency operations. The heads of the research groups have already been informed and will regulate further matters of relevance to the individual groups. The examination office, the administration of third-party funds, the personnel administration and the departmental administration will continue to be (emergency) staffed. It will be prevented that, for example, contract extensions do not come about and people lose their jobs as a result. Laboratory operations are to be discontinued. Only essential activities that are necessary to prevent valuable instruments or computer/data clusters from being damaged (e.g. due to a lack of cooling, etc.) can be carried out. The working group leaders have nominated persons for this work, who are put on a list of personnel for emergency operation. Persons who are not on this list cannot enter the GEO building from Wednesday 25.3. until April 19.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Bach for the dean’s office and the department administration