Members of the Senate of the Helmholtz Association
(Status: January 2025)
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
Nicole Dreyer-Langlet
Member of the Management Board and Vice President Research & Technology, Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Franz
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Roche Holding Ltd., Switzerland
Dr. Daniela Gerd tom Markotten
Member of the Management Board for Digitalization and Technology, Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin
Dr. Andrea Grimm
Most recently Vice President, CIO Organization, IBM Corporation
Prof. Dr. Jutta Hanson
Head of the Institute of Electrical Power Systems with Integration of Renewable Energies, TU Darmstadt
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
Ex officio Senate members:
Stephan Albani
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Dr. Holger Becker
Representative of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer
President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, Munich
Katharina Fegebank
Senator in the Departmental Authority for Science, Research and Gender Equality, Hamburg
N.N.
Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
Sebastian Gemkow
Saxon Minister of Science, Saxon Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism, Dresden
Michael Kellner
State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Berlin
Bettina Lentz
State Secretary, Ministry for Finance, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Cem Özdemir
Federal Minister of Education and Research, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
Chairperson of the German Council of Science and Humanities, Cologne
Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler
President of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin
Guests:
Prof. Dr. Katja Becker
President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier
President of the Leibniz Association, Berlin
Franziska Broer
Managing Director of the Helmholtz Association, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buiter
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific director of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka
President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich
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. Bettina Lommel
Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
Dr. Simon Plass
Vice-Chairperson of the Committee of Scientific-Technical Councils of the Helmholtz Centres; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)
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
