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 Anja Katrin Boßerhoff
Substitute: Professor Dr Nina Dethloff, LL.M.
Dr Julia C. Arlinghaus
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Chair of Production Systems and Automation at the IAF of
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF
in Magdeburg
Member since February 2021
Dr Anja Katrin Boßerhoff
Chairperson of the Scientific Commission
Professor of Biochemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Member since February 2017
Dr Nina Dethloff, LL.M.
Deputy Chairperson of the Scientific Commission
Professor of Law
Director of the Institute for German, European and International Family Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Director at the Käte Hamburger “Law as Culture”
Member since February 2020
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 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 Rebekka Habermas
Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Member since February 2019
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 Sabine Maasen
Professor of Science and Innovation Studies at the
University of Hamburg
Member since February 2017
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 Marina Münkler
Professor of Older and Early Modern German Literature and Culture at the
Dresden University of Technology
Member since February 2017
Dr Jan-Michael Rost
Professor of Physics
Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
Member since February 2017
Dr Gabriele Sadowski
Professor of Thermodynamics at the Technical University of Dortmund
Member since Februar 2022
Dr. Ferdi Schüth
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim/Ruhr
Member since Februar 2022
Dr Heike Solga
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 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 Doctoral College for Applied Research in North Rhine-Westphalia
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 Dorothea Wagner
Chairperson of the WR
Professor of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Member since February 2015
Dr Wolfgang Wick
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
Ms Petra Herz
Honorary Chairperson of the Joachim Herz Foundation, previously Chairperson of the Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation from 2008 to 2016
Member since February 2017
Dr Claudia Lücking-Michel
Managing Director of AGIAMONDO e. V.
Vice-President of the Central Committee of German Catholics
Member since February 2019
Dr Ing Peter Post
Vice President at FESTO AG & Co. KG
Honorary professor at the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Member since February 2017
