HGF - Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
(The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres)
Jürgen Mlynek - President of HGF
MPG - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (The Max Planck Society)
Peter Gruss - President of MPG
The Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Hans-Jörg Bullinger - President of FhG
DFG - Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (The German Research Foundation)
Matthias Kleiner - President of DFG
- President of DFG since 2007
- Doktor-Ingenieur degree (1987)
- Habilitation in the field “Forming Technology" (1991)
- Senior researcher, Univ. of Dortmund (1987-1994)
- Full professor, Chair of Design and Manufacturing at the Brandenburg
- Technical University of Cottbus (1994-1998)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize (1997)
- Full professor, Chair of Forming Technology, Univ. of Dortmund (since 1998)
- Managing Direktor of the newly founded Institute of Forming Technology and Ligtweight Construction (IUL) (2004-2006)
- Elected member of the DFG senate, joint committee and grants committee (2002-2005)
- Vice President of the DFG (2005-2007)
Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Leibniz Association)
Ernst Rietschel - President of Leibniz Association
- President of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (since 2005)
- Acting Chair of the European Medical Research Councils of the European Science Foundation (since 2006)
- Director at the Research Center Borstel, Borstel/Germany (since 1980)
- Scientific Vice President of the Leibniz-Association (2003)
- President of the Lycée français in Hamburg/Germany (1990-1994)
- Stipend of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Osaka (Prof. T. Shiba) (1985)
- Habilitation (Biochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg/Germany) (1978)
- Group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg/Germany (1973-1978)
- Post doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (1972-1973)
- Studies, master degree and PhD in chemistry, scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg (1961-1972)