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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Selection Department
Jean-Paul-Str. 12
53173 Bonn, Germany
Fax: 0228-833 212
info[at]avh.de
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
Präsident der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Gerald Schneider, Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder, Professor Dr. Helle D. Ulrich)
Specialist Committee Members
- Professor Dr. Ulrich Becker
Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München - Professor Dr. Andreas Beyer
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Basel - Professor Dr. Günter Brenn
Institut für Strömungslehre und Wärmeübertragung, Technische Universität Graz - Professor Dr. Helge Bruelheide
Institut für Biologie - Geobotanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Halle-Wittenberg - Professor Dr. Lucas Brunsfeld
Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Eindhoven University of Technology - Professor Dr. Christian Büchel
Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaften, Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf - Professor Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen
Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien - Professor Dr. Bernd Bukau
Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH), Universität Heidelberg - Professor Dr. Matei Chihaia
Fachbereich A, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften - Romanistik, Universität Wuppertal - Professor Dr. Thomas Dandekar
Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik, Universität Würzburg - Professor Dr. Gerhard Dehm
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf - Professor Dr. Fabian Essler
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford - 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. Simone Fulda
Institut für Experimentelle Tumorforschung in der Pädiatrie, Klinikum und Fachbereich Medizin, Universität Frankfurt am Main - Professor Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner
Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Gießen - Professor Dr. Anke Gerber
Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg - Professor Dr. Frank Glorius
Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster - Professor Dr. Peter Greil
Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften, Lehrstuhl Glas und Keramik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Tanja Gulder
Fakultät für Chemie, Technische Universität München - Professor Dr. Arthur Hebecker
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg - Professor Dr. Francois Holtz
Institut für Mineralogie, Universität Hannover - Professor Dr. Ulrike Holzgrabe
Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, Universität Würzburg - Professor Dr. Nicola Hüsing
Fachbereich Materialforschung und Physik, Universität Salzburg - Professor Dr. Sebastian Jessberger
Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Zürich - Professor Dr. Christian Jung
Institut für Pflanzenbau und Pflanzenzüchtung, Universität Kiel - Professor Dr. Ansgar Jüngel
Institut für Analysis und Scientific Computing, Technische Universität Wien - Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Kampert
Fachbereich C - Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Universität Wuppertal - Professor Regine Keller
Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsarchitektur und öffentlichen Raum, Technische Universität München - Professor Dr. Axel Klar
Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern - Professor Dr. Anja Klöckner
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Frankfurt am Main - Professor Dr. Bernd Kortmann
Englisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg - Professor Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer
Institut für Energie- und Systemverfahrenstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig - Professor Dr. Christoph Levin
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Abteilung Altes Testament, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München - Professor Dr. Erica Lilleodden
Institut für Werkstoffforschung, Helmholtz-Zenstrum Geesthacht GmbH - Professor Dr. Hartmut Löwen
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Düsseldorf - Professor Dr. Michael Peter Manns
Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover - Professor Dr. Brigitte Mauch-Mani
Faculte des Sciences, Institut de Botanique, Universite de Neuchatel - Professor Dr.-Ing. Marion Merklein
Lehrstuhl für Fertigungstechnologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Rolf Mülhaupt
Institut für Makromolekulare Chemie, Universität Freiburg - Professor Dr. Johannes Neugebauer
Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster - Professor Dr. Peter Oestmann
Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Universität Münster - Professor Dr. Johannes Paulmann
Abteilung für Universalgeschichte, Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz - Professor Dr. Dennis Pausch
Institut für Klassische Philologie, Technische Universität Dresden - Professor Dr. Klaus Petermann
Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technischen Universität Berlin - Professor 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. Gerald Schneider
Fachbereich für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz - Professor Dr. Melanie Schnell
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg - Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schröder
Fachbereich Bauwissenschaften, Institut für Mechanik, Universität Duisburg-Essen - Professorin Dr. Dorothea Schulz
Fachbereich 08- Geschichte/ Philosophie, Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Münster - Professorin Dr. Brigitta Schütt
Institut für Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin - Professor Dr. Matthias Schütt
Institut für Algebraische Geometrie, Universität Hannover - Professorin Dr. Antje Schwalb
Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation, Technische Universität Braunschweig - Professorin Dr. Helle Ulrich
Institut für Molekulare Biologie (IMB) gGmbH, Universität Mainz - Professorin Dr. Cynthia Volkert
Institut für Materialphysik, Universität Göttingen - Professorin Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Germanistisches Institut, Universität Münster - Professor Dr. Klaus Wehrle
Fachbereich 1 - Informatik, Lehrstuhl für Kommunikation & Verteilte Systeme, Technische Hochschule Aachen - Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wiemer
Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Gunther Wittstock
Institut für Chemie, Universität Oldenburg - Professor Dr. Matthias Wuttig
I. Physikalisches Institut, Technische Hochschule Aachen
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Auswärtiges Amt
VLR Ronald Münch - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung:
MinR Peter Hassenbach - Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder:
MinDirig Jürgen Gerber
Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Baden-Württemberg
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst:
Dr. Roman Luckscheiter - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Dr. Annette Schmidtmann
(in Stellvertretung: Dr. Jörg Schneider) - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Generalverwaltung:
Dr. Berthold Neizert
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Julia Fischer
Deutsches Primatenzentrum - Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung, Göttingen
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Wilfried Buchmüller, Gruppe Theorie, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Hamburg
Professor Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel, Institut für Internationales und Ausländisches Privatrecht, Universität Köln)
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. Monika Betzler
Lehrstuhl für Philosophie V, Universität München (LMU) - Professor Dr. Immanuel Bloch
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching - Professor Dr. Reinhard Fässler
Abteilung für Molekulare Medizin, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried - Professor Dr. Roland A. Fischer
Lehrstuhl für Anorganische und Metallorganische Chemie, Technische Universität München - Professor Dr. Rita Franceschini
Fakultät für Bildungswissenschaften, Freie Universität Bozen - 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. Hans-Jochen Heinze
Medizinische Fakultät, Klinik für Neurologie II, Universität Magdeburg - Professor Dr. Hans Keppler
Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth - Professor Dr. Jörn Leonhard
Historisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg - Professor Dr. Klara Nahrstedt
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Professor Dr. Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus
Institut für Angewandte Physik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) - Professor Dr. Claudia Olk
Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität München (LMU) - Professor Dr. Michael Röckner
Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld - Professor Dr. Achim Rosch
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Köln - Professor Dr. Erich Schröger
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig - Professor Dr.-Ing Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern
Fachgruppe Physikalisch-chemische Grundlagen der Prozeßtechnik, Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Magdeburg - Professor Dr. Uwe Sunde
Seminar für Bevölkerungsökonomie, Universität München
Voting Non-specialist Committee Members
- Auswärtiges Amt: Ronald Münch
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung:
MinR Peter Hassenbach - Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder:
Udo Michallik
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst:
Dr. Birgit Klüsener - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Dr. Jörg Schneider - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Generalverwaltung:
Dr. Berthold Neizert - Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft:
Ann-Katrin Schröder-Kralemann - Fritz Thyssen Stiftung:
Dr. Frank Suder
For information on the composition of the Selection Committee see the relevant FAQ section.
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reißig
Institut für Chemie und Biochemie - Organische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Harald Strauß)
Specialist Committee Members
- Professor Dr. Anne Baillot
Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines, Le Mans Université - Professor Dr. Thomas Benzing
Klinik II für Innere Medizin, Universität Köln - Professor Dr. Martin Burger
Naturwissenschaftlische Fakultät, Department Mathematik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Irene Burghardt
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Frankfurt am Main - Professor Dr. Sonja Drobnic
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Universität Bremen - Professor Dr. Gerhard Ernst
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Saskia Florine Fischer
AG Neue Materialien, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - Professor Dr. Beate Kellner
Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München - Professor Dr. Bettina Lotsch
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart - Professor Dr. Gabriele Metzler
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Professor Dr. Christiane de Morais Smith
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University - Professor Dr. Uta Paszkowski
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge - Professor Dr. Ludwig Schultz
Institut für Metallische Werkstoffe, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung (IFW), Dresden - Professor Dr. Harald Strauß
Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Münster - Professor Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher
Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Fachgruppe Physikalisch-Chemische Prozesstechnik, Magdeburg
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung:
MinR Peter Hassenbach - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Liaison Office, Bonn:
Professor Dr. Masahiko Hayashi - Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan:
Professor Yian Tai
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst:
Dr. Christian Schäfer - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Dr. Armin Krawisch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Generalverwaltung:
Dr. Berthold Neizert
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Silke Wieprecht
Institut für Wasser- und Umweltsystemmodellierung, Universität Stuttgart
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink)
Specialist Committee Members
- Professor Dr. Holm J. Altenbach
Institut für Mechanik, Universität Magdeburg - Professor Dr. Paola Ayala
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Wien - Professor Dr. Ismail Cakmak
Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences, Sabanci University - Professor Dr. Manuel Cancio Meliá
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Professor Dr. Claudia Derichs
Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Marburg - Professor Dr. Hellmut Eckert
Instituto de Física de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) - Professor Dr. Thomas Fillitz
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien - Professor Dr. Lutz Heide
Pharmazeutisches Institut, Universität Tübingen - Professor Dr. Peter Imkeller
Institut für Mathematik, Bereich Stochastik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin - Professor Dr. Reiner Klemd
Geozentrum Nordbayern, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
Fachrichtung 4.2 - Romanistik, Universität des Saalandes, Saarbrücken - Professor Dr. Dirk Messner
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn - Professor Dr. Gerd Pluschke
Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut, Swiss TPH, Basel - Professor Dr. Ute Spiekerkötter
Klinik für Allgemeine Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg - Professor Dr. Anne Valle Zarate
Institut für Tierproduktion in den Tropen und Subtropen, Universität Hohenheim - Professor Dr. Ludger Wessjohann
Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie, Halle (Saale) - Professor Dr. Silke Wieprecht
Institut für Wasser- und Umweltsystemmodellierung, Universität Stuttgart
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung:
Ina von Frantzius
(Proxy: Daniel Braun)
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst:
Cay Etzold
As of May 2018
The central instrument for conferring Anneliese Maier 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 awards.
The selection committee is composed of:
- specialist members: recognized researchers of different disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences (= 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 and, if necessary, the order in which candidates are shortlisted, is taken by the President of the Foundation in his capacity as President of the Board of Trustees; the Board of Trustees approves the appointment for an initial term of three years1, which can be renewed twice.
1As long as the programme is offered biennially, the term of office of the committee members may also be four years with a first possible extension of four years and a second possible extension of two years.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Gerhard Lauer
Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities, Universität Basel
Specialist Committee Members
- Professor Dr. Lorraine J. Daston
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin - Professor Dr. Klaus Fiedler
Psychologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg - Professor Dr. Bernd Kortmann
Englisches Seminar, Philologische Fakultät, Universität Freiburg - Professor Dr. Klaus Krüger
Kunsthistorisches Institut (WE 2), Freie Universität Berlin - Professor Dr. Andrea Lenschow
Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück - Professor Dr. Christof Mauch
Rachel Carson Center, Universität München - Professor Dr. Hartmut Rosa
Institut für Soziologie, Universität Jena - Professor Dr. Anne Röthel
Lehrstuhl Privatrecht I, Bucerius Law School - Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft, Hamburg
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Berlin
MinR Peter Hassenbach
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Hans-Christian Pape
Präsident der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Specialist Committee Members
- Professorin Dr. Andrea Abele-Brehm
Department Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer
Fakultät für Physik, Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Universität Wien - Professorin Dr. Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
Klinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Universität Freiburg - Professorin Dr. Nicole Dubilier
Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie, Bremen - Professor Dr. Daniel Frost
Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Experimentelle Geochemie und Geophysik (BGI), Universität Bayreuth - Professor Dr. Alois Fürstner
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim / Ruhr - Professor Dr. Gerhard Huisken
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO) - Professor Dr. Johannes Kabatek
Romanisches Seminar, Universität Zürich - Professor Dr. Thomas Kaufmann
Theologische Fakultät, Seminar Kirchengeschichte, Universität Göttingen - Professor Dr. Dierk Raabe
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf - Professorin Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Historisches Seminar, Universität Münster - Professorin Dr. Ruth H. Strasser
Herzzentrum Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden - Professorin Dr. Maria-Roser Valenti
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung:
Min. Dir. Ulrich Schüller - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
Präsident - Hochschulrektorenkonferenz:
Professor Dr. Peter-André Alt
Präsident - Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt
Vorstandsvorsitzender - Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder:
Udo Michallik
Generalsekretär
Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär - Auswärtiges Amt:
Heidrun Tempel - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
N.N.
Generalsekretärin
As of September 2019
Chairperson
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Secretary General
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Committee Members
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Bielefeld University:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Faist
Professor of Sociology of Transnationalization, Migration and Development - German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Godel
Head of Department Centre for Science Studies - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg:
Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach
Professor of International Politics of Human Rights - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Dr. Johanna Kowol-Santen
Deputy Head Scientific Affairs - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology:
Prof. Dr. Annie Powell
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry - German Rectors' Conference:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Scholz-Reiter
Vice-President for International Affairs - Council for At-Risk Academics:
Prof. Dr. Paul Weindling
Trustee
As of February 2018
Chairperson
Dr. Steffen Mehlich
Leiter der Abteilung Förderung und Netzwerk der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Further Committee Members
- Auswärtiges Amt,
Wissenschaft und Hochschulen:
Ronald Münch - Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung,
Internationaler Austausch im Hochschulbereich, Internationalisierung:
Ministerialrat Peter Hassenbach - 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:
Stefan Bienefeld - Hochschulrektorenkonferenz,
Internationale Angelegenheiten:
Marijke Wahlers
As of May 2019
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Barbara Göbel
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin
Further Committee Members
- Professor Dr. Juliavon Maltzan Pacheco
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Department of International Relations, Sao Paulo - Professor Dr. Barbara Potthast
Universität Köln, Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Abteilung des Historischen Seminars, Köln - Dr. Christian Roschmann
Lefosse Advogados, Sao Paulo - Thomas Timm
Deutsch-Brasilianische Industrie- und Handelskammer, Sao Paulo - Christina Gehlsen
Auswärtiges Amt (AA), Berlin
Non-voting Committee Member
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
Chairperson
Guoqiang Wei
Commerzbank AG, Shanghai
Further Committee Members
- Wei Jing
HRT Investment & Management (Group) Co., Ltd, Suzhou - Michael Maeder
Ward Howell International China, Shanghai - Christian Sommer
German Center, Shanghai - Shizhou Wang
Peking University, Law School, Bejing - Christina Gehlsen
Auswärtiges Amt (AA), Berlin
Non-voting Committee Member
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
Chairperson
Professor Dr. Rekha Vaidya Rajan
Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Languages, Centre of German Studies, Delhi
Further Committee Members
- Dr. Sankarshan Basu
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore - Vinesh Kumar Jairath
Mumbai - Dr. Sanak Mishra
Indian National Academy of Engineering, Gurgaon - Dr. Shanti Pappu
Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, Chennai & Deccan College, Pune - Bernhard Steinruecke
Indo-German Chamber Of Commerce, Mumbai - Christina Gehlsen
Auswärtiges Amt (AA), Berlin
Non-voting Committee Member
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
Chairperson
N.N.
Further Committee Members
- Dr. Irina Kalinina
LegalStudies.RU, Moskau - Dr. Stefan Meister
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP), Berlin - Professor Dr. Tatjana Nikitina
St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, Sankt Petersburg - Dr. Martin Schneider
Hauptgeschäftsführer, Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V., Düsseldorf - Christina Gehlsen
Auswärtiges Amt (AA), Berlin
Non-voting Committee Member
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
Chairperson
Dr. Jackson Janes
Johns Hopkins University, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS),Washington, DC
Committee Members
- James D. Bindenagel
Universität Bonn, Center for International Security and Governance, Bonn - Dr. Cathleen S. Fisher
American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Washington, DC - Stefanie Ziska
German American Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, GA - Christina Gehlsen
Auswärtiges Amt (AA), Berlin
Non-voting Committee Member
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2017
Chairperson
Professor Matias de Oliveira Pinto
Universität Münster
Commitee Members
- Professor Martin Baeza de Rubio
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin - Professor Marta Gulyas
Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spanien - Professor Dr. José A. Rodriguez-Quiles y Garcia
Universidad de Granada, Spanien
Non-voting Committee Members
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Generalsekretär
As of May 2019
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.
Chairperson
Professor Dr. François Claude Buscot
Department Bodenökologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Halle (Saale)
(Proxy: Dr. Imme Scholz)
Specialist Committee Members
- Professor Dr. François Claude Buscot
Department Bodenökologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Halle (Saale) - Professor Dr. Olanike Deji
Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria - 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, India - Professor Dr. Jörg Matschullat
Interdisziplinäres Ökologisches Zentrum, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg - Prof. Dr. Jörg Peters
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen - Dr. Imme Scholz
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn - Professor Dr. Thomas Schomerus
Institut für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Professor Dr. Britaldo Silveira Soares Filho
Instituto de Geosciencias-CPTMC, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brasil - Hortensia Solis
Viaje con Cafe, Den Haag, Netherlands / San Jose, Costa Rica - Professor Dr. Bjorn B. Stevens
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg - Professor Dr. Holm Tiessen
Montevideo, Uruguay - Professor Dr. Yujun Yi
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, PR China - Professor Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu
Lehrstuhl für Methodik der Fernerkundung, Technische Universität München - Professor Dr. Martin Zimmer
Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie (ZMT) GmbH, Bremen
Non-specialist non-Voting Committee Members
- Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Non-specialist Voting Committee Members
- Berthold Breid
Renewables Academy AG, Berlin - Stephan Contius
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMU), Berlin - Dr. Anna Görner
Centre for Postgraduate Studies of Environmental Management,
Technische Universität Dresden - Professor Dr. Markus Große Ophoff
Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück - Dr. Joachim Hein
Abteilung Klima und nachhaltige Entwicklung, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (BDI), Berlin - Dr. Bernd Markus Liss
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn - Dr. Gisela Schneider
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn