Senate Commissions

Permanent Members*

Research Field Energy: Professor Thomas Hartkopf, Director of Regenereative Energies, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Research Field Earth and Environment: Professor Susanne Crewell, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne

Research Field Health: Professor Irmgard Sinning, Director of the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Centre

Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport: Jörg Feustel-Büechl, former Director European Space Agency

Research Field Key Technologies: Professor Dieter Jahn, Senior Vice-President of Science Relations and Innovation Management, BASF, Ludwigshafen

Research Field Structure of Matter: Professor Joël Mesot, Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Ulrich Schüller, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Representatives of the Federal States:

Dr Heribert Knorr, Head of Directorate, Ministry of Science, Research and Art, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

Dr Thomas Grünewald, Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

*The permanent members belong to all six Senate Commissions.

Senate Commission Research Field Energy

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Hermann Requardt, Member of the Siemens Managing Board and CEO of Siemens Healthcare, former CTO of Siemens and Head of Corporate Technology, Erlangen
• Professor Louis Schlapbach, former CEO of EMPA, an ETH domain, Switzerland

Federal Government Representative:

• Prof. Dr. Diethard Mager, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin

Senate Commission Research Field Earth and Environment

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Volker Mosbrugger, Director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum, Frankfurt
• Profofessor Klaus Töpfer, former Undersecretary General, United Nations, an Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam

Federal Government Representative:

• Wilfried Kraus, Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn

Senate Commission Research Field Health

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Andreas Barner, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors and Head of Pharmaceutical Research, Development and Medicine, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
• Professor Babette Simon, President of the University of Oldenburg

Federal Government Representative:

• Bärbel Brumme-Bothe, Direcotr-General, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Berlin

Senate Commission Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Ulrich Seiffert, Managing Partner of WiTech Engineering GmbH, Braunschweig
• Dr Detlef Müller-Wiesner, Senior Vice-President, Head of External Affairs, Business and Transverse Initiatives, Corporate Technical Office, EADS Deutschland GmbH, Munich

Federal Government Representative:

• Helge Engelhard, Head of Directorate, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn

Senate Commission Research Field Key Technologies

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Chemistry Department, Bielefeld University
• Professor Gerd Litfin, Managing Partner of Arkadien Verwaltungs-KG, Göttingen

Federal Government Representative:

• Dr Bernhard Rami, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Senate Commission Research Field Structure of Matter

Senate Representatives:

• Professor Vera Lüth, SLAC National Accelerator Labroratory, Stanford, US
• Professor Robert Rosner, University of Chicago, US Dr Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Federal Government Representative:

• Dr Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn