Senate Commissions

The Senate Commissions convene under the chairmanship of the Helmholtz Association President, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek. The review panels relate to the programme structure of the second round of programme-oriented funding.

Permanent members

Research Field Energy: Prof. Dr Thomas Hartkopf, Department Head Renewable Energies, Technical University Darmstadt

Research Field Earth and Environment: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Volker Josef Mosbrugger
Director of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt

Research Field Health: Prof. Dr. Irmgard Sinning, Associate Director, Biochemistry Centre (BZH), University of Heidelberg

Research Field Key Technologies: Prof. Dr Dieter Jahn, Senior Vice-President, Science Relations and Innovation Management, BASF, Ludwigshafen

Research Field Structure of Matter: Prof. Dr Joël F. Mesot, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

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

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

Representatives appointed by the Länder:

Dr Heribert Knorr, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

Karl-Heinz Krems, 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

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Hermann Requardt, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG, Erlangen

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Louis Schlapbach, Former CEO, EMPA, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Representative of the Federal Ministry: Dr Knut Kübler, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2009*:

Renewable Energies: Prof. Dr Louis Schlapbach, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (since 2010 senator for the Research Field "Energy")

Nuclear fusion: Prof. Dr Walter F. Henning, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA

Nuclear Safety Research: Dr Phillip Finck, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, USA

Efficient Energy Conversion and Use: Prof. Dr Alexander Wokaun, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)

Technology, Innovation and Society: Prof. Dr Ortwin Renn, University of Stuttgart

Senate Commission Research Field Earth and Environment

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Klaus Töpfer, Former Under Secretary General, United Nations

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Liqiu Meng, Vice-President, Technische Universität München

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Wilfried Kraus, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2008*:

Geosystem: The Changing Earth: Prof. Dr Roy H. Gabrielsen, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

Marine, Coastal and Polar Systems: Prof. Dr Guy Brasseur, CSC, Hamburg

Atmosphere and Climate: Prof. Dr Thomas Stocker, Institute for Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Berne, Switzerland

Terrestrial Environment: Prof. Dr Johan Bouma, formerly of Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands

Senate Commission Research Field Health

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Dr Andreas Barner, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Head of Pharma R&D+M, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Babette Simon, President of the University of Oldenburg

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Bärbel Brumme-Bothe, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Berlin

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2008*:

Cancer Research: Prof. emer. Dr Paul Neiman, Member and Director emer. Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: Prof. Dr Thomas F. Lüscher, Chairman, Cardiology Clinic, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Function and Dysfunction of the Nervous System: Prof. Dr Mark Hallett, Chief of Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NINDS, Bethesda, USA

Infection and Immunity: Prof. Dr Dennis L. Kasper, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Environmental Health: Prof. David A. Schwartz, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA

Systemic Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases: Prof. Dr Nouria Hernandez, Director, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Senate Commission Research Field Key Technologies

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Gerd Litfin, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Linos AG, Göttingen

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bielefeld

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Dr Bernhard Rami, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2009*:

Supercomputing: Prof. Dr Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

Fundamentals of Future Information Technology: Prof. Dr Michael M. T. Loy, Chair Professor, Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

BioSoft: Macromolecular Systems and Biological Information Processing: Prof. Dr Georg Maret, Soft Matter Physics, University of Konstanz

NANOMICRO: Science, Technology, Systems: Prof. Dr Erich Gornik, Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, and Center for Micro and Nanostructures, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Biointerfaces: Molecular and Cellular Interactions at Functional Interfaces: Prof. Dr Ernst Hafen, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Advanced Engineering Materials: Prof. Dr Berthold Scholtes, Institut für Werkstofftechnik, Metallische Werkstoffe, University of Kassel

Senate Commission Research Field Structure of Matter

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Vera Lüth, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Robert Rosner, University of Chicago, USA

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Dr Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2009*:

Astroparticle Physics: Prof. Dr Roger Blandford, Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford, USA

Elementary Particle Physics: Prof. Dr Michael Davier, Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, Université Paris-Sud 11, France

Physics of Hadrons and Nuclei: Prof. Dr Barbara Jacak, State University of New York, USA

Research with Photons, Neutrons and Ions: Prof. Dr Joël F. Mesot, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Senate Commission Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport

Member of the Senate: Prof. Dr Ulrich Seiffert, Managing Director, WiTech Engineering GmbH, Braunschweig

Member of the Senate: Dr Detlef Müller-Wiesner, Senior Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer, Innovation and CTO Deputy Corporate Technical Office, EADS Deutschland, Munich

Representative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Helge Engelhard, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Bonn

Chairpersons of the review panels during the programme evaluations in 2008*:

Aeronautics: Prof. Dr Jürgen Klenner, Senior Vice-President Flight Physics, Airbus Engineering, Blagnac, France

Space: Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Breitkopf, Director, Kayser-Threde GmbH, Munich

Transport: Prof. Dr George A. Giannopoulos, Head of Hellenic Institute of Transport, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

* The review panels were active during the programme evaluations in 2008 and 2009.