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 

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. Britta Redlich
Director of the FELIX Laboratory and Leader of a research group on Infrared and THz spectroscopy, Radboud University, The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Rita K. Schmutzler
Director at the Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital Cologne

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. 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

Bettina Stark-Watzinger
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. Helmut Dosch
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg

Thomas Frederking
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, Executive Director Finance and Administration of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)

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

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

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. Matthias H. Tschöp
Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association, CEO and Scientific Director of Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (HMGU), Munich