Members of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association

(Status: May 2012)

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 Liqiu Meng
Vice-President of the Technische Universität München

Dr Detlef Müller-Wiesner
Senior Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer Innovation und CTO Deputy, 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 Hans-Jörg Bullinger
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich

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 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