Board of Directors and Organization

The Partners' Meeting is the highest decision-making body of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. It is composed of members representing the two partners: the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Supervisory Board supervises the lawfulness, expedience and economic efficiency of management. It makes decisions on important research-related and financial issues of the company.

The members of the Supervisory Board are:

MinDir Stefan Müller (Chairman)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert (Vize-Chair)
Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Dr. Kirsten Bender
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Indusstry, Climate Action and Energy

Dr. Harald Glückler
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics

Dr. Martin Keller
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Prof. Dr. Lamia Messari-Becker
Universität Siegen

MinR Dr. Peter Schroth
Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Dr. Irina Soeffky
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport

MinR'in Dr. Rodoula Tryfonidou
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Prof. Dr. Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine

Dr. Karsten Wildberger
CECONOMY AG

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To ensure we are best placed to achieve our aims, Forschungszentrum Jülich is supported by a Scientific Advisory Council made up of renowned personalities. The Council advises the Board of Directors on matters of fundamental and strategic importance and critically assesses Forschungszentrum Jülich from an external perspective.

The committee consists of members who are not employees of the company. They are appointed by the Supervisory Board, as a rule for five years. The chairperson is a member of the Supervisory Board.

Members

Dr. Martin Keller, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA (Chairman)

Prof. Dr. Asaph Aharoni, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Clarke, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland

Dr. Sabine Herlitschka, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria

Dr. Deborah J. Jones, CNRS – University of Montpellier, France

Prof. Dr. Maki Kawai, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan

Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Matic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Dr. Mary E. Maxon, Schmidt Sciences, USA

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, TU Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Joyce E. Penner, University of Michigan, USA

Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Prof. Dr. Armin Schnettler, Vice-President VDE and CEO Profas Consulting GmbH, Germany

Dr. Fred Streitz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Alumni

Prof. Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA

Prof. Dr. T. W. Clyne, University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Frank-Detlef Drake, E.ON Energy Research Center gGmbH, Germany

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll, AIT, Austria

Prof. Dr. Toni M. Kutchan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA

Prof. Dr. Karen Maex, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nadya Mason, University of Illinois, USA

Dr. Peter Nagler, (vormals Evonik Industries AG), Germany

Prof. Dr. Eva Pebay-Peyroula, ANR, France

Dr. Heike Riel, IBM Research, Zürich Research Laboratory, Switzerland (Chairman of the SAC, 2013 - 2022)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

Prof. Dr. Elke Scheer, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Prof. Dr. Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan, TU Dortmund, Germany

Oskar Zelder, BASF SE, Deutschland

The Scientific and Technical Council (WTR) advises the Partners’ Meeting, the Supervisory Board and the Management Board on all issues associated with the strategic orientation of Forschungszentrum Jülich and on all scientific and technical issues of general importance. These include the key research objectives and tasks of Forschungszentrum Jülich, its contributions to research programmes, its organizational structure, and cooperations with universities and other research institutions.

The members of the Scientific and Technical Council are

• the directors of the institutes.
• elected representatives of the scientific and technical employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich.
• one representative each of the universities with which joint professorial appointments have been made, nominated by the universities.
• a member of the Works Council or his/her deputy, both of them scientific or technical employees.
• other members, who need not be employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich.

WTR performs its duties in the form of:

• plenary sessions, usually convened three times per financial year,
• the Main Committee, which usually meets monthly,
• the chairman and his deputies,
• and, if applicable, further committees and working groups.

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Ruth Schwaiger (Institute of Energy and Climate Research)

Vice-Chair:

Dr. Tina Kroll (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine)

Prof. Dr. Claus Michael Schneider (Peter Grünberg Institute)