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
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)
Karl Ulrich Mayer - President of Leibniz Association
- President of the Leibniz Association (since 2010)
- Stanley B. Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin
- Chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale University (2005-2010)
- Founding Director of the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and the Life Course (2003-2010)
- Professor of Sociology at Yale University (2003-2010)
- Adjunct Professor at the Free University Berlin (since 1984)
- Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development Berlin (1983-2005)
- Director at the National Survey Research Center/ZUMA-Nachrichten (Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen, ZUMA) (1979-1983)
- Member, Wissenschaftsrat (1993-1999)
(Chair of the Scientific Committee 1996-1999)