Selection Committees of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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Contact

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Selection Department
Jean-Paul-Str. 12
53173 Bonn, Germany

Fax: 0228-833 212
info[at]avh.de

The central instrument for conferring Humboldt Research Fellowships is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report to the committee. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for research fellowships.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognized researchers of various disciplines (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting representatives of public and private funders; non-voting representatives of other science (funding) organisations.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review the applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • preferably broad scientific expertise
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee
  • including researchers who work abroad whilst ensuring the necessary familiarity with the German science system.

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed twice.

 

As of: May 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Katja Becker
President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn

(Proxy: Professor Dr. Gerald Schneider, Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder, Professor Dr. Helle D. Ulrich)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Knut Asmis
    Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig
  • Dr. Alexander Aulehla
    Developmental Biology Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
  • Professor Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer
    Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)
  • Professor Dr. Susanne Crewell
    Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie (IGM), Universität Köln
  • Professor Dr. Thomas Dandekar
    Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik, Universität Würzburg
  • Professor Dr. Gerhard Dehm
    Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
  • Professor Dr. Kirstin Drenkhahn
    Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft Strafrecht (WE 2), Freie Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Andreas Dufter
    Institut für Romanische Philologie, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Emrah Düzel
    Klinik für Neurologie II, Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg A.ö.R
  • Professor Dr. Fabian Essler
    Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Bastian Etzold
    Institut für Technische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Professor Dr. Nina Farwig
    Fachbereich 17: Biologie, Universität Marburg
  • Professor Dr. Andreas Fery
    Teilinstitut Physikalische Chemie und Physik Polymerer Materialien, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.
  • Professor Dr. Jonathan Finley
    Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Klaus Fischer
    Institut für Integrierte Naturwissenschaften, Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • Professor Dr. Katharina Franke
    Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Judith Frömmer
    Institut für Romanistik, Universität Wien
  • Professor Dr. Michael Gelinsky
    Zentrum für Translationale Knochen-, Gelenk- und Weichgewebeforschung, Technische Universität Dresden
  • Professor Dr. Christian Hackenbecker
    Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Barbara Hammer
    Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Universität Bielefeld Professor
  • Dr. Stefan Hecht
    Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Dr. Janosch Hennig
    Lehrstuhl für Biochemie IV – Biophysikalische Chemie, Universität Bayreuth
  • Professor Dr. Fabian Herweg
    Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bayreuth
  • Professor Dr. Francois Holtz
    Institut für Mineralogie, Universität Hannover
  • Professor Dr. Ulrike Holzgrabe
    Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, Universität Würzburg
  • Professor Dr. Anja Jetschke
    Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Professor Dr. Ansgar Jüngel
    Institut für Analysis und Scientific Computing, Technische Universität Wien
  • Professor Dr. Christian Kähler
    Fakultät für Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Aerodynamik LRT-7, Universität der Bundeswehr München
  • Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Kampert
    Fachbereich C - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Universität Wuppertal
  • Professor Dr. Axel Klar
    Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
  • Professor Dr. Anja Klöckner
    Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Professor Dr. Steffi Knorn
    Fakultät III – Prozesswissenschaften, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Joachim Kopp
    Department of Theoretical Physics, Esplanade des Particules, CERN Genf
  • Professor Dr. Martin Laube
    Theologische Fakultät Seminar Systematische Theologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Professor Dr. Dieter Chichung Lie
    Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Institut für Biochemie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Professor Dr. Angelika Lingnau
    Institut für Psychologie, Universität Regensburg
  • Professor Dr. Hartmut Löwen
    Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Düsseldorf
  • Professor Dr. Julia S. Meyer
    IRIG/PHELIQS, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
  • Dr. Christian Münch
    Institut für Biochemie II, Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Professor Dr. Johannes Neugebauer
    Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster
  • Professor Dr. Peter Oestmann
    Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Münster
  • Professor Dr. Dennis Pausch
    Fachgebiet für Klassische Philologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg
  • Professorin Dr. Ursula Renz
    Institut für Philosophie, Universität Klagenfurt
  • Professor Dr. Philipp Richter
    Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam
  • Professor Dr. Tobias Rosefeldt
    Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Professor Dr. David Scheschkewitz
    Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Anorganische Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes
  • Professor Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Streit
    Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Kiel
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder
    Fachbereich Bauwissenschaften, Institut für Mechanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Professor Dr. Dorothea Schulz
    Fachbereich 08- Geschichte/ Philosophie, Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Münster
  • Professor Dr. Brigitta Schütt
    Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Matthias Schütt
    Institut für Algebraische Geometrie, Universität Hannover
  • Professor Dr. Antje Schwalb
    Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  • Professor Dr. Dr. Michal-Ruth Schweiger
    Institut für Translationale Epigenetik und Tumorgenetik, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Universität Köln
  • Professor Dr. Brigitte Sölch
    Zentrum für Europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (ZEGK), Institut für Europäische Kunstgeschichte (IEK), Universität Heidelberg
  • Dr. Golo Storch
    Department Chemie, Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie 1, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Robert Thimme
    Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Abteilung Innere Medizin II -, Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Endokrinologie und Infektiologie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Marja Timmermans
    Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen (ZMBP), Universität Tübingen
  • Professor Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass
    Fachbereich Chemie, Arbeitsgruppe Festkörperchemie und Bioanorganische Chemie, Universität Konstanz
  • Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
    Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Professor Dr. Gunther Wittstock
    Institut für Chemie, Universität Oldenburg
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Katrin Wudy
    Laser-based Additive Manufacturing, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Matthias Wuttig
    I. Physikalisches Institut, Technische Hochschule Aachen
  • Professor Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch
    Institut für Germanistik, Universität Hamburg
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwick
    Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

  • Federal Foreign Office
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

  • German Academic Exchange Service
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

The central instrument for conferring certain research awards of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report to the committee. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for research awards.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognized researchers of various disciplines (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting representatives of public and private funders; non-voting representatives of other science (funding) organisations.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review the applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • preferably broad scientific expertise
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee
  • including researchers who work abroad whilst ensuring the necessary familiarity with the German science system.

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed twice.

As of: May 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Heike Behrens)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Thorsten Bach
    Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie 1, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Matthias Bartelmann
    Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Heidelberg
  • Professor Dr. Ute Johanna Bayen
    Mathematische und Kognitive Psychologie, Universität Düsseldorf
  • Professor Dr. Heike Behrens
    Deutsches Seminar, Universität Basel
  • Professor Dr. Monika Betzler
    Lehrstuhl für Philosophie V, Universität München (LMU)
  • Professor Dr. Immanuel Bloch
    Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching
  • Professor Dr. Oliver Einsle
    Institut für Biochemie, Universität Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Anton Eisenhauer
    GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
  • Professor Dr. Roland A. Fischer
    Lehrstuhl für Anorganische und Metallorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Rudolf O. Gross
    Walther-Meissner-Institut für Tieftemperaturforschung, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Garching
  • Professor Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen
    Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Lehrstuhl Physikalische Chemie II, Universität Bochum
  • Professor Dr. Anke Jentsch
    Juniorprofessur Störungsökologie und Vegetationsdynamik, Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung (BayCEER), Universität Bayreuth
  • Professor Dr. Eva-Maria Kieninger
    Juristische Fakultät, Universität Würzburg
  • Professor Dr. Thomas F. Münte
    Klinik für Neurologie (Lübeck), Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
  • Professor Dr. Klara Nahrstedt
    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Professor Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel
    Historisches Seminar, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Achim Rosch
    Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Köln
  • Professor Dr.-Ing Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern
    Fachgruppe Physikalisch-chemische Grundlagen der Prozesstechnik, Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg
  • Professor Dr. Karl-Theodor Sturm
    Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Bonn
  • Professor Dr. Uwe Sunde
    Seminar für Bevölkerungsökonomie, Universität München (LMU)
  • Professor Dr. Sara Wickström
    Abteilung für Zell- und Gewebedynamik, Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Biomedizin, Münster
  • Professor Dr. Urs Achim Wiedemann
    Division PH, CERN, Genf
  • Professor Dr. Susanne Zepp-Zwirner
    Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften Institut für Romanische Philologie (WE5), Freie Universität Berlin

Voting Non-specialist Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

  • Federal Foreign Office
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

  • German Academic Exchange Service
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
  • Fritz Thyssen Foundation (voting right in the Reimar Lüst Award Programme)

The central instrument for conferring Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report to the committee. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for research fellowships.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognized researchers of various disciplines (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting representatives of public and private funders; non-voting representatives of other science (funding) organisations.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review the applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • preferably broad scientific expertise
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee
  • including researchers who work abroad whilst ensuring the necessary familiarity with the German science system.

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed twice.

 

As of: May 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Uta Pazkowski
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Gabriele Metzler)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Anne Baillot
    Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines, Le Mans Université
  • Professor Dr. Frank Bradke
    Axonal Growth and Regeneration Group, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Bonn
  • Professor Dr. Martin Burger
    Computational Imaging Group and Helmholtz Imaging, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg
  • Professor Dr. Stefanie Dehnen
    Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  • Professor Dr. Sebastian Diehl
    Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln
  • Professor Dr. Gerhard Ernst
    Institut für Philosophie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Professor Dr. Ryan Gilmour
    Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster
  • Professor Dr. Stefanie Gräfe
    Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Jena
  • Professor Dr. Jens O. Herrle
    Institut für Geowissenschaften, Fachbereich 11: Geowissenschaften /Geographie, Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Professor Dr. Beate Kellner
    Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Gabriele Metzler
    Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Silke Ospelkaus-Schwarzer
    Institut für Quantenoptik, Universität Hannover
  • Professor Dr. Uta Paszkowski
    Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
  • Professor Dr. Werner Porod
    Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg
  • Professor Dr. Karen A. Shire
    Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher
    Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Fachgruppe Prozesstechnik, Magdeburg

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Liaison Office, Bonn
  • Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

  • German Academic Exchange Service
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

The central instrument for conferring Georg Forster Research Fellowships and Georg Forster Research Awards is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report to the committee. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for research fellowships and awards.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognized researchers of various disciplines (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting representatives of public and private funders; non-voting representatives of other science (funding) organisations.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review the applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • experience in scientific cooperation with developing and transition countries
  • preferably broad scientific expertise
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee
  • • including researchers who work abroad whilst ensuring the necessary familiarity with the German science system.

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed twice.

 

As of: May 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Ute Spiekerkötter

(Proxy: Professor Dr. Franc Meyer)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Holm J. Altenbach
    Institut für Mechanik, Universität Magdeburg
  • Professor Dr. Ismail Cakmak
    Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences, Sabanci University
  • Professor Dr. Aranzazu del Campo Becares
    Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM), Saarbrücken
  • Professor Dr. Uta Dickhöfer
    Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Kiel
  • Professor Dr. Heike Drotbohm
    Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Universität Mainz
  • Professor Dr. Ute Fendler
    Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft und Komparatistik, Universität Bayreuth
  • Professor Dr. Nicola Fohrer
    Ökologie-Zentrum, Fachabteilung für Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft, Universität Kiel
  • Professor Dr. Anamaria Font
    Department of Physics, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
  • Professor Dr. Katrin Heer
    Institut für Forstgenetik, Universität Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Lutz Heide
    Pharmazeutisches Institut, Universität Tübingen
  • Professor Dr. Peter Imkeller
    Institut für Mathematik, Bereich Stochastik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Florian Jeßberger
    Lehrstuhl für deutsches und internationales Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht und Juristische Zeitgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Franc Meyer
    Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Göttingen
  • Professor Dr. Gerd Pluschke
    Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut, Swiss TPH, Basel
  • Professor Dr. Bryce Sydney Richards
    Lichttechnisches Institut (LTI), Campus Süd, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
  • Professor Dr. Norbert Sewald
    Institut für Organische und Bioorganische Chemie, Universität Bielefeld
  • Professor Dr. Ute Spiekerkötter
    Klinik für Allgemeine Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka
    Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Hildegard Westphal
    Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) GmbH, Bremen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funder:

  • Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisation:

  • German Academic Exchange Service

 

The central instrument for conferring the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report to the committee. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for the bestowal of Alexander von Humboldt Professorships.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognised researchers of various disciplines (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting and non-voting representatives of public and private funders as well as representatives of other science (funding) organisations and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • preferably broad scientific expertise
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee
  • including researchers who work abroad whilst ensuring the necessary familiarity with the German science system.

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed once.

 

As of: May 2023

Chairperson

Professor Dr. Robert Schlögl
President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer
    Fakultät für Physik, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Universität Wien
  • Professor  Dr. Marlene Bartos
    Institut für Physiologie I, Universität Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Oliver Brock
    Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Nicole Dubilier
    Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie, Bremen
  • Professor Dr. Jürgen Eckert
    Erich Schmid lnstitute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Leoben
  • Professor Dr. Mario Gollwitzer
    Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychologie, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Gesine Hansen
    Zentrum Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin, Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
  • Professor Dr. Gerhard Huisken
    Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO)
  • Professor Dr. Thomas Kaufmann
    Theologische Fakultät, Seminar Kirchengeschichte, Universität Göttingen
  • Professor Dr. Kristian Kersting
    Fachbereich Informatik, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Professor Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer
    Abteilung 3: Bioinformatik und Angewandte Algorithmik, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken
  • Professor Dr. Markus Reichstein
    Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie Abteilung für Biogeochemische Systeme, Jena
  • Professor Dr. Ruth Signorell
    Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich
  • Professor Dr. Judith Simon
    Universität Hamburg
  • Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
    Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Andreas Tünnermann
    Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik (IOF), Jena
  • Professor Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey
    Fachgebiet Neuere und Neueste Geschichte II - Neueste Geschichte, Universität Marburg
  • Professor Dr. Maria-Roser Valenti
    Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main
  • Professor Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
    Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • German Rectors' Conference
  • Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

  • Federal Foreign Office

 

As of January 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Robert Schlögl
(Co-Chair: Professor Dr. Martin Stratmann)

Voting Non-specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Robert Schlögl
    Präsident der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • Professor Dr. Martin Stratmann
    Präsident der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
    Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Jörg Hacker
    Alt-Präsident der Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften

Representative of our funder:

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Voting Specialist Committee Members

up to three specialist academics who are newly appointed in each selection round

Representative of the following partner organisation:

  • Max Planck Society (chair of the nomination committee, no voting right)

As of January 2024

Chair

Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Secretary General
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Committee Members

  • University of Cologne:
    Professor Dr. Konrad Brockmeier
    Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Pediatric Cardiology
  • University of Wuppertal:
    Prof. Dr. phil. Matei Chihaia
    Professor of Spanish and French Literature
  • German Academic Exchange Service:
    Dr. Christian Hülshörster
    Director of the Scholarship Programmes Southern Hemisphere
  • German Rectors' Conference:
    Prof. Dr. Angela Ittel
    Vice-President for International Affairs, Gender Equality, Diversity
    President of Technische Universität Braunschweig
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
    Dr. Johanna Kowol-Santen
    Head Physics and Chemistry and Deputy Head Scientific Affairs
  • University of Potsdam
    Professor Dr. Jürgen Mackert
    Professor of Sociology
  • German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina:
    Dr. Ruth Narmann
    Head of International Relations Department
  • Leipzig University:
    Prof. Dr. Solveig Richter
    Heisenberg Professor for International Relations and Transnational Politics

As of May 2022

Chair

Dr. Steffen Mehlich
Leiter der Abteilung Förderung und Netzwerk der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Further Committee Members

  • Auswärtiges Amt,
    Wissenschaft und Hochschulen:
    Stefan Delfs
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung,
    Europäischer Hochschulraum, Internationalisierung:
    Dr. Lisette Andreae
  • Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung,
    Hochschulbildung und Wissenschaft:
    Daniel Braun
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
    Wissenschaftliche Geräte und Informationstechnik:
    Dr. Johannes Janssen
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst,
    Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und überregionale Projekte:
    Dr. Ursula Paintner
  • Hochschulrektorenkonferenz,
    Internationale Angelegenheiten:
    Marijke Wahlers

 

As of: May 2023

Chair

tba

Further Committee Members

  • Professor Dr Fraya Frehse
    Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), São Paulo
  • Rafael Gontijo de Andrade Brasil
    Distrito Consultoria de Relacoes Governamentais, Brasilia
  • Dr Christian Roschmann
    Mayer Brown, São Paulo
  • Dr Petra Schaeber
    Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany , Salvador
  • Dr Claudia Bärmann Bernard
    Deutsch-Brasilianische Industrie- und Handelskammer, São Paulo
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of May 2023

Chair

Michael Maeder
Ward Howell International China, Shanghai

Further Committee Members

  • Chenxi Gong
    Zhuantang Straight Street School of Architecture, China Academy of Art, Linping Town
  • Professor Yang Liu
    University of Europe for Applied Sciences GmbH, Berlin
  • Michael Maeder
    Ward Howell International China, Shanghai
  • Professorin Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer
    Fachbereich II – Sinologie, Universität Trier
  • Christian Sommer
    German Centre for Industry and Trade, Shanghai
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of: May 2023

Chair

tba

Further Committee Members

  • Piyush Dhawan
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Jakarta
  • Professor Dr. Renuka Kamath
    S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
  • Birgid  Uccia
    Asian Contemporary fine Arts GmbH, Zürich
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
     

As of: May 2023

Chair

Dr. Stefan Meister
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Berlin

Further Committee Members

  • Angelina Davydova
    Office of Environmental Information, Sankt Petersburg
  • Olga Kizina
    Creative Industries Agency, Moscow
  • Dr. Stefan Meister
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Berlin
  • Dr. Martin Schneider
    Hauptgeschäftsführer, Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V., Düsseldorf
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of: May 2023

Chair

Dr. Duane Jethro
University of Cape Town, Cape Town

Committee Members

  • Matthias Boddenberg
    Southern African-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Johannesburg
  • William Roy Goldstone
    Durban University of Technology, Durban
  • Dr. Duane Jethro
    University of Cape Town, Cape Town
  • Lerato Moloi
    Standard Bank Group, Johannesburg
  • Dr. Melanie Müller
    Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
  • Louisa Barbara Zondo
    Diaz Reus and Targ International Alliance of Law Firms, Johannesburg
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of: May 2023

Chair

tba

Committee Members

  • Sudha David-Wilp
    German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
  • Stormy-Annika Mildner
    Aspen Institute Germany, Berlin
  • Dr. Andrea Lynn Stith
    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Mark Tomkins
    German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest, Inc., Chicago
  • Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of January 2023

Chair

Professor Matias de Oliveira Pinto
Universität Münster

Commitee Members

  • Professor Márta Gulyás
    Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spanien
  • Professor Koh Gabriel Kameda
    Musikhochschule Münster, Universität Münster
  • Professor Elena Mendoza Lopez
    Fakultät Musik, Universität der Künste Berlin
  • Professor Maria José Rielo Blanco
    Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona, Spanien
  • Professor Dr. José A. Rodriguez-Quiles y Garcia
    Universidad de Granada, Spanien

The central instrument for conferring International Climate Protection Fellowships is an interdisciplinary selection committee.

The members are assigned certain applications, on which they report back in writing. All decisions are discussed and taken jointly by the interdisciplinary committee; the Foundation’s Board of Trustees must approve the committee’s choices for the bestowal of International Climate Protection Fellowships.

The selection committee is composed of:

  • specialist members: recognised researchers of various disciplines as well as individuals who, due to their background and personal qualifications, are particularly well suited to assess young leaders and their potential as mediators and multipliers in the broader field of climate protection and resource conservation (= specialist selection committee members)
  • non-specialist members: voting representatives of the public funder as well as of other science (funding) organisations.

This composition ensures the necessary scientific expertise to review applications, complemented by institutional expertise on strategic-structural aspects.

The total number and the representation of disciplines by experts on the committees is based on the average number and subject representation of the applications received. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s choice of expert committee members forms the basis for recognising and selecting excellence in its sponsorship programmes. The selection of specialist selection committee members is, therefore, a core process at the Foundation that seeks to identify the finest scientific minds. The Selection Department takes great care to regularly include domestic and international researchers on its committees who are new to the Foundation’s broader network in order to remain open to new perspectives and angles.

For each new appointment or replacement, the Foundation consults numerous experts as well as representatives of science organisations to draw up a shortlist. Scientific excellence is a basic prerequisite for a candidate to be considered. Other core prerequisites are:

  • international contacts and experience, as possible extended academic professional activity abroad
  • broad scientific or practical expertise in the field of climate protection and resource conservation
  • willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary discourse
  • willingness to actively support the work of the Humboldt Foundation
  • sufficient availability.

The following additional aspects are also considered when appointing committee members:

  • gender and age balance
  • balanced regional representation
  • complementing existing expertise on the committee

The decision to appoint a new member is approved by the Board of Trustees. The appointment is for an initial term of three years and can be renewed twice.

 

As of: May 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Martin Zimmer
(Proxy: Hortensia Solis)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Dr.-Ing. Richard Arthur
    Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
  • Daryna Dechyeva
    Centre for Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management (CIPSEM), Technische Universität Dresden
  • Dr. Ines Dombrowsky
    Programmbereich Umwelt-Governance, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH (DIE), Bonn
  • Dr. Johannes Flacke
    Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Niederlande
  • Professor Dr. Romain Lucas Glele Kakai
    Faculty of Agronomic sciences, Universite d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin
  • Dr. Amol A. Kulkarni
    Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Indien
  • Professor Dr. Harald Kunstmann
    Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen
  • Professor Dr. Claudia Künzer
    Standort Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Weßling
  • Professor Dr. Markus Lederer
    Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Professor Dr. Denise Margaret Matias
    Fachbereich für Wald und Umwelt, Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde
  • Professor Dr. Thomas Schomerus
    Institut für Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  • Dr. habil. Stefan Sieber
    Programmbereich 2 „Landnutzung und Governance“, Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF)e. V., Müncheberg
  • Professor Dr. Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho
    Instituto de Geosciencias-CPTMC, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brasilien
  • Hortensia Solis
    Viaje con Cafe, Den Haag, Niederlande / San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Professor Dr.-Ing. Yujun Yi
    School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, VR China
  • Professor Dr. Martin Zimmer
    Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie (ZMT) GmbH, Bremen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funder and partner organisations:

  • Renewables Academy AG, Berlin
  • Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
  • Centre for Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management,
    Technische Universität Dresden
  • Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück
  • Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (BDI), Berlin
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn
  • German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Other representatives of the federal departments interested in the programme:

  • Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
  • Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

As of: May 2023

 

Chair

Professor Dr. Simone Fulda
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Bernd Kortmann)

Specialist Committee Members

  • Professor Dr. Barbara Albert
    Rector Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Professor Dr. Flavio Anselmetti
    Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern
  • Professor Dr. Lucas Brunsveld
    Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Professor Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen
    Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien
  • Professor Dr. Laura Covi
    Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Göttingen
  • Professor Dr. Daniel Cremers
    Fakultäten für Informatik & Mathematik, Lehrstuhl für Bildverarbeitung und künstliche Intelligenz, Technische Universität München
  • Professor Dr. Simone Fulda
    Präsidentin der Universität Kiel
  • Professor Dr. Christoph Halbig
    Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Zürich
  • Professor Dr. Michael J. Hoffmann
    Institut für Angewandte Materialien IAM, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
  • Professor Dr. Christoph Jacob
    Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  • Professor Dr. Bernd Kortmann
    Philologische Fakultät, Englisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg
  • Professor Dr. Tosso Leeb
    Institut für Genetik, Universität Bern
  • Professor Dr. Holger Rauhut
    Lehrstuhl für Mathematik der Informationsverarbeitung, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funder:

  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research