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 Leibniz Association's recommendation ‘Contributions by Scientific Advisory Boards in Assuring Quality’ and follow the corresponding report template.

Scientific Advisory Committee Members

(as of February 2024) 

• Prof. Dr. Axel A. Brakhage
  Director, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute, Jena
  Germany
• Prof. Dr. Melanie Brinkmann (Chair)
  Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research & Institute of Genetics, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  Germany
• Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hengel
  Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Institute for Virology, Freiburg
  Germany
• Prof. Dr. Michaela Müller-Trutwin
  HIV, Inflammation and Persistence, Institute Pasteur, Paris
  France
• Dr. Nadia Naffakh
  Influenza Virus-Host Cell Interactions, Institute Pasteur, Paris
  France
• Prof. Dr. Joanna Parish (Deputy Chair)
  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
• Prof. Dr. Jörg Timm
  Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Institute for Virology, Düsseldorf
  Germany