Newcomers to the Senate of the Helmholtz Association

Two top researchers now have been appointed to the senate of the Helmholtz Association: The medical scientist Prof. Dr Babette Simon, President of the University Oldenburg, for the Research Field Health and the particle physicist Prof. Dr Vera Lüth from Stanford University, USA, for the research field Structure of Matter. Vera Lüth already has been a member of the senate committee for the research field Structure of Matter between January 2008 and the end of 2010. In 1974, she earned her doctorate in particle physics in Heidelberg, worked for CERN in Geneva and at the SLAC in Stanford, USA, where she now is a professor emeritus. Simon studied medicine in Freiburg and Basel and received her PhD at the University Freiburg. After periods of research at the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA), she continued her career at the University Hospital of the University of Marburg in 1990, where she qualified as a professor in 1998. Since 2006, Simon has held the post of vice president of the University of Marburg and was appointed to the Scientific Commission of the German Science Council and to the Health Research Council of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In addition to the assembly of members, the externally staffed senate featuring representatives from the federal government and the federal states as well as from the world of science, the industry and other research organisations is a central body of the Helmholtz Association. The senate advises in all important decisions pertaining to the Helmholtz Association and in particular decides the recommendations regarding funding of the research fields in the context of Programme-oriented Funding.

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