Members of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association
(Status: February2022)
Elected members:
Prof. Dr. Günter Blöschl
Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dr. Andrea Grimm
Member of the supervisory boards of IBM Germany and IBM Central Holding
Prof. Dr. Jutta Hanson
Head of the Institute of Electrical Power Systems with Integration of Renewable Energies, TU Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Sabina Jeschke
Senior Advisor for Digital Transformation, Deloitte GmbH, Former Board Member Deutsche Bahn AG, CEO Arctic Brains AB
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Former Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Rainer Martens
Former Chairmen of the Supervisory Board and Member of the Executive Board (COO), MTU Aero Engines Holding AG, Munich
Hildegard Müller
President of Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe
Executive Director, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Düsseldorf
Dr. Jörg Reinhardt
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss pharmaceutical concern Novartis AG
Prof. Dr. Rita K. Schmutzler
Director at the Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital Cologne
Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth
Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Prof. Dr. Monika Sester
Professor at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Ex officio Senate members:
Stephan Albani
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Dr. Holger Becker
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Katja Becker
President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn
Katharina Fegebank
Senator in the Departmental Authority for Science, Research and Gender Equality, Hamburg
Werner Gatzer
State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
Michael Kellner
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner
President of the Leibniz Association, Berlin
Bettina Lentz
State Secretary, Ministry for Finance, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen
Minister of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westfalia, Düsseldorf
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
Federal Minister of Education and Research, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler
President of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin
Guests:
Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt
President of the German Rectors Conference, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Michael Baumann
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman and Scientific Director of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Franziska Broer
Managing Director of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, President of the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Dr. Sabine Helling-Moegen
Administrative Director of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn
Prof. Dr. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chair of the Executive Board, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Cologne
Dr. Bettina Lommel
Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
Prof. Dr. Katja Matthes
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Director of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München
Dr. Simon Plass
Vice-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
Dr. Stefan Schwartze
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Administrative Director of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann
President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Munich
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner
Chairperson of the German Council of Science and Humanities, Cologne