New Executive Director at GEOMAR:

The board of trustees of the GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has appointed Michael Wagner as its new administrative director. Together with the scientific director, Prof. Dr Peter Herzig, the 59-year old head of department at the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Science, Economy and Transport will manage the well-established research centre, presumably as of 1 July 2012. The incorporation into the Helmholtz Association required the GEOMAR to staff the newly created position of administrative director. Wagner has been Head of the Research Department at the Science Ministry in Kiel since 1993. In the context of this employment, he was responsible for, amongst other things, the institutes preceding what now constitutes the GEOMAR. In parallel, he is a long-standing member in various committees of the Joint Science Conference (GWK - Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz) of the German federal and state governments, of the German Research Foundation DFG and of the Leibniz Association.

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