Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
The Boards of Trustees at the Max Planck Institutes are important instruments for communicating with the public. The Board members, leading personalities from the economy, science, politics and the media, assume a key role as ambassadors for basic science and foster interaction with the institutes’ scientific and social environments. They are appointed by the President of the Max Planck Society for a term of six years.The members of our Board of Trustees are
Victoria Appelbe
Head of Department for Economic Development
Federal City of Bonn, Bonn
Katja Dörner
Mayor of the Federal City of Bonn, Bonn
Dr. Andreas Fier
Head of Academic Relations, Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
Dr. Stefan Groß
Chief Executive Officer, Carl Zeiss Microscopy Deutschland GmbH, Oberkochen
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch
Rector of the University of Bonn, Bonn
Daniele Jörg
Head of Science Program "Quarks", Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne
Prof. Dr. Andrea Kienle
Head of Department for Research, Ministry for Culture and Science of North Rhine Westphalia, Düsseldorf
Dr. Monika Lessl
Board of Trustees, Bayer Foundation, Leverkusen
Peter Limbourg
Director General, Deutsche Welle, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof
Director, Forschungsmuseum Koenig,
Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Bonn
Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee
President, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn
Rector of the University of Cologne, Cologne
Dr. Andrea Niehaus
Director, Deutsches Museum Bonn, Bonn
Inga Schäfer
Secretary General, Joint Science Conference (GWK), Bonn
Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl
President, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn
Dr. LL.M. Tim Wißmann
Partner, Küttner Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, Cologne