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 July 2025)

• Prof. Dr. Gülsah Gabriel (chair)
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder (deputy)
  Head of Research Unit
• Dagmar Schröder-Huse
  Administrative director
• Patrick Thurau
  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. Adam Grundhoff
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald
  Head of Research Department
• Prof. Dr. Maya Topf
  Head of Research Department
• Dr. Pietro Scaturro
  Head of Research Group
• Dr. Dr. Ulrike Lange
  Head of Junior Research Group
• Dr. Tanja Laske
  Head of Junior Research Group
• Dr. Patrick Blümke
  Research staff representative
• Dr. Zoé Schmal
  Research staff representative
• Anja Lindemann
  Adminstrative staff representative
• Tina Meyer
  Adminstrative staff representative

PhD student representatives 

• Cedric Mahncke
• Jule Alina Russow
• Katharina Overhoff
• Laura Staliunaite 

Postdoc representatives 

• Dr. Kristina Schierhorn
• Dr. Zoé Schmal