Members of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association

Elected members:

Dr. Brigitte Bach
Managing Director/Spokesperson of the Management Board, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

Prof. Dr. Lilian Busse
Vice President of the German Environment Agency, Dessau-Roßlau 

Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser
Director at the Max-Planck-Institut for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Prof. Dr. Christoph Franz
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Roche Holding Ltd., Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm
Director of the Energy Systems and Market Design Lab at the University of Technology Nuremberg

Dr. Heike Riel
IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology at IBM

Prof. Dr. Corinna Salander
Vice President Locomotives CNE at Alstom

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schill
Head of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroinformatics, University of Bremen, und Rector of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst

Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth
Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim an der Ruhr

Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

Prof. Dr. Joachim Ullrich
Vice President of the German Physical Society, Bad Honnef

Sebastian Ziehm
Head of Department of Program Management Technology Development at Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH

Ex officio Senate members:

Stephan Albani
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin

Dorothee Bär
Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Astronautics, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Katja Becker
President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn

Maryam Blumenthal
Senator in the Departmental Authority for Science, Research, Equality and Districts, Hamburg

Sebastian Gemkow
Saxon Minister of Science, Saxon Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism, Dresden

Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich

Prof. Dr. Martin Keller
President of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin

Bettina Lentz
State Secretary, Ministry for Finance, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Frank Wetzel
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

N.N.
Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin

N.N.
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin

Guests:

Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier
President of the Leibniz Association, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer
President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Munich

Dr. Sabine Helling-Moegen
Managing Director of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin/Bonn

Prof. Dr. Jan Hesthaven
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, President of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe

Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chair of the Executive Board, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Cologne

Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chair of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

Dr. Jörg Meyer
Vice-Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-Technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe

Dr. Simon Plass
Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-Technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen

Jan Regler
Representative of the Staff and Works Councils of the Helmholtz-Centres, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung

Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal
President of the German Rectors Conference, Bonn

Prof. Dr. Maike Sander
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin

Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

Dr. Diana Stiller
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Administrative Director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

Ursula Weyrich
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Administrative Director of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
Chairperson of the German Council of Science and Humanities, Cologne