The Scientific Council

The scientific council supports and advises the board on the institute’s guiding scientific principles and programs. The council consists of all research group heads as well as of four elected representatives of the institute. Furthermore, it consists of a technical and an administrative staff representative, each with voting rights, and a PhD student and a PostDoc representative with an advisory role. Similarly, the administrative director has an advisory role without voting rights. The scientific council has its own rules of procedure and meets monthly.

Scientific Council Members

(as of January 2024)

• Prof. Dr. Adam Grundhoff (chair) 
  Head of Research Unit
• Prof. Dr. Gülsah Gabriel (deputy) 
  Head of Research Department
• Dagmar Schröder-Huse 
  Administrative director
• Meike Alisch 
  Deputy Administrative Director
• Prof. Dr. Marcus Altfeld 
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Wolfram Brune 
  Head of Research Department   
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Dobner 
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald 
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Maya Topf 
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder
  Head of Research Unit
• Dr. Pietro Scaturro 
  Head of Junior Research Group
• Dr. Thomas Günther 
  Research staff representative
• Dr. Zoé Schmal 
  Research staff representative
• Anja Lindemann 
  Adminstrative staff representative
• Heike Hildebrandt 
  Adminstrative staff representative

PhD student representatives 

• Yen-Chia Lin
• Katharina Overhoff
• Laura Staliunaite 

Postdoc representatives 

• Dr. Andrea Pirosu 
• Dr. Sebastian Schloer