Scientific Advisory Board

The scientific advisory committee offers advice on the institute’s scientific direction and conducts annual external scientific evaluations of the LIV’s scientific quality, structural development and organisation. The committee is made up of eight scientists who are active in research, internationally acclaimed but not employed at the institute. The committee was newly appointed in 2011 and consists of four woman and four men scientists. With two of each coming from abroad, this represents an optimal allocation of male, female, national and international members. Since 2011 the scientific advisory committee assessments have been based on the WGL recommendation ‘Contributions by Scientific Advisory Boards in Assuring Quality’ and follow the corresponding report template.

Scientific Advisory Committee Members

(as of July 2022)

Prof. Dr. Ulf Dittmer (chair)
Institute of Virology, Essen University Hospital

Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage
Director, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena

Prof. Dr. Melanie Brinkmann
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research & Institute of Genetics, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Prof. Dr. Stipan Jonjic
Department for Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Prof. Dr. Michaela Müller-Trutwin
HIV, Inflammation and Persistence, Institute Pasteur, Paris, Frankreich

Dr. Nadia Naffakh
Influenza Virus-Host Cell Interactions, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France

Prof. Dr. Joanna Parish
Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Prof. Dr. Peter Rosenthal
Structural Biology of Cells and Viruses, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK