Elected members:
Prof. Dr Dr Andreas Barner
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Head of Pharmacology R&D and Medicine, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
Prof. Dr Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
Bielefeld University, Faculty of Chemistry
Prof. Dr Gerd Litfin
Executive Associate of Arkadien Verwaltungs KG, Göttingen
Prof. Dr Vera Luth
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA
Prof. Dr Volker Mosbrugger
Director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum, Frankfurt
Dr Detlef Müller-Wiesner
Senior Vice-President, Head of External Affairs, Business and Transverse Initiatives, Corporate Technical Office, EADS Deutschland, Munich
Prof. Dr Hermann Requardt
Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Healthcare Sector, former CTO of Siemens AG and head of Corporate Technology, Erlangen
Prof. Dr Robert Rosner
University of Chicago, USA
Prof. Dr Louis Schlapbach
Former CEO EMPA, ETH Domain, Switzerland
Prof. Dr Ulrich Seiffert
Managing Director of WiTech Engineering GmbH, Braunschweig
Prof. Dr Babette Simon
President of the University of Oldenburg
Prof. Dr Klaus Töpfer
former Under Secretary General, United Nations and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
Ex officio Senate members:
Werner Gatzer
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
Prof. Dr Peter Gruss
President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, Munich
Anne Ruth Herkes
Secretary of State, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin
Renate Jürgens-Pieper
Senator for Education, Science, and Health of the State of Bremen
Michael Kretschmer
Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Jens Lattmann
Councillor of State, Department of Finances of the City of Hamburg
Prof. Dr Wolfgang Marquardt
Chairman of the German Science Council, Cologne
Prof. Dr Jürgen Mlynek
President of the Helmholtz Association
René Röspel
Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr Annette Schavan
Federal Minister of Education and Research
Prof. Dr Johanna Wanka
Minister of Science and Cultural Affairs of Niedersachsen, Hannover
Guests:
Prof. Dr Achim Bachem
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr Nikolaus Blum
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Administrative Director of the Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
Prof. Dr Thomas Brey
Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr Horst Hippler
President of the German Rectors’ Conference, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Reinhard F. J. Hüttl
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Spokesman of the Executive Board, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Cornelia Jebsen
Representative of the Staff and Works Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr Matthias Kleiner
President of the German Research Foundation, Bonn
Prof. Dr Karl Ulrich Mayer
President of the Leibniz Association (WGL), Berlin
Prof. Dr-Ing. Reimund Neugebauer
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich
Prof. Dr Horst Stöcker
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific Managing Director of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
Prof. Dr Eberhard Umbach
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, President of the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wahner
Vice-Chairperson of the Scientific-Technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Prof. Dr Otmar D. Wiestler
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr Johann-Dietrich Wörner
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the Executive Board, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Cologne
Dr Heike Wolke
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Administrative Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

