Scientists and scholars appointed by the Federal President on the joint proposal of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Max Planck Society (MPG), the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF), the Fraunhofer Society (FhG) and the Leibniz Association.
Chairperson: Professor Dr Heike Solga
Substitute: Professor Dr Ferdi Schüth
Dr Julia C. Arlinghaus
Chair of Production Systems and Automation at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF in Magdeburg
Member since February 2021
Dr Nina Dethloff, LL.M.
Professor of Law
Director of the Institute for German, European and International Family Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Member since February 2020
Dr Jakob Edler
Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Professor of Innovation Policy and Strategy at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR)
Member since February 2023
Dr Beate Escher
Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the University of Tübingen
Head of the Department of Cell Toxicology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig
Member since February 2018
Dr Christian Facchi
Research Professor for Embedded and Networked Systems at Ingolstadt University of Technology
Head of Graduate Centre
Member since February 2020
Dr Christine Falk
Professor for Transplantation Immunology at the Institute for Transplantation Immunology at the Hanover Medical School
Member since February 2023
Dr Uta Gaidys
Professor of Nursing Science
Head of the Department of Nursing and Management at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg
Member since February 2021
Dr Michael Hallek
Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Cologne
Director Clinic I for Internal Medicine
CIO Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf
Member since February 2022
Dr Jürgen Heinze
Professor of Zoology / Evolutionary Biology at the University of Regensburg
Member since February 2018
Dr Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, PhD
Professor of Molecular Cardiology
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Member since February 2018
Dr Gudrun Krämer
Senior Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin
Member since February 2018
Dr Wolfgang Lehner
Professor for Databases
Director of the Institute for System Architecture at the Technical University of Dresden
Member since February 2023
Dr Gerard Meijer
Director of the Department of Molecular Physics at the Fritz Haber Institute
of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Member since February 2018
Dr Ursula Rao
Director of the Department of Ethnology, Politics and Governance at the MPI for Ethnological Research
Honorary Professor of Ethnology at the University of Leipzig
Member since February 2023
Dr Gabriele Sadowski
Professor of Thermodynamics at the Technical University of Dortmund
Member since Februar 2022
Dr Ferdi Schüth
Deputy Chairperson of the Scientific Commission
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim/Ruhr
Member since Februar 2022
Dr Christine Silberhorn
Professor for Integrated Quantum Optics at the University of Paderborn
Member since February 2023
Dr Heike Solga
Chairperson of the Scientific Commission
Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin
Director of the Research Unit "Education and the Labour Market" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Member since February 2018
Dr Thomas S. Spengler
Professor for Production and Logistics at the Technical University of Braunschweig
Member since February 2020
Dr Birgit Spinath
Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Heidelberg
Member since February 2023
Dr Ing Martin Sternberg
Professor of Physics at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences
Chairman of the Graduate School for Applied Research in North Rhine-Westphalia (PK NRW)
Member since February 2019
Dr Margit Szöllösi-Janze
Professor of Modern History and Contemporary History at the
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Member since February 2018
Dr Martin Visbeck
Professor for Physical Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Member since February 2022
Dr Wolfgang Wick
Chairperson of the WR
Professor for Clinical Neuro-oncology
Medical Director Neurology, Centre Spokesperson Head Clinic, Heidelberg University Hospital | Head of the Neuro-oncology Clinical Cooperation Unit at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Member since February 2021
Public figures appointed by the Federal President of Germany on the basis of a joint proposal by the federal government and the governments of the states (Länder)
Dr Ulrich A. K. Betz
Vice President of Innovation at Merck
Head of the Department Innovation & Entrepreneurship Incubator – Future Insight
Member since February 2021
Dr Cord Dohrmann
Chief Scientific Officer of Evotec SE
Member since February 2021
Mr Marco R. Fuchs
Chairman of the Management Board of OHB SE, Bremen
Member since February 2019
Ms Alexandra Gerlach
Journalist
Member since February 2018
Dr Ing Frank Heinricht
Chairman of the Board of Management of SCHOTT AG
Member since February 2020
Dr Stefan Kampmann
Chief Technology Officer der Voith Group
Member since February 2023
Dr Claudia Lücking-Michel
Managing Director of AGIAMONDO e. V.
Vice-President of the Central Committee of German Catholics
Member since February 2019
Dr Harald Schwager
Member and Vice Chairman of the Board of EVONIK Leading Beyond Chemistry
Member since February 2023
