Selection Committees of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

As of May 2021

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 2021

Chair

Professorin Dr. Katja Becker
Präsidentin 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. Christian Büchel
  Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaften, Zentrum für Experimentelle Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
• Professor Dr. Matei Chihaia
  Fachbereich A, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften - Romanistik, Universität Wuppertal
• Professorin 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. 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
• Professorin Dr. Katharina Franke
  Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin
• Professor Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner
  Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Gießen
• Professor Dr. Michael Gelinsky
  Zentrum für Translationale Knochen-, Gelenk- und Weichgewebeforschung, Technische Universität Dresden
• Professor Dr. Frank Glorius
  Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Münster
• Professorin Dr. Tanja Gulder
  Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Leipzig
• Professor Dr. Christian Hackenbecker
  Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
• Professor Dr. Arthur Hebecker
  Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg
• Dr. Janosch Hennig
  Biological Structure and Biocomputing Programme, EMBL Heidelberg - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Professor Dr. Fabian Herweg
  Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Bayreuth
• Professor Dr. Francois Holtz
  Institut für Mineralogie, Universität Hannover
• Professorin Dr. Ulrike Holzgrabe
  Institut für Pharmazie und Lebensmittelchemie, Universität Würzburg
• Professor Dr. Sebastian Jessberger
  Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Zürich
• 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 Dr. Axel Klar
  Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
• Professorin Dr. Anja Klöckner
  Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Knieling
  Universität für Baukunst und Raumentwicklung Fachgebiet Stadtplanung und Regionalentwicklung, Universität Hamburg
• Professorin Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer
  Institut für Angewandte Materialien -Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik (IAM-WET), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
• Professorin Dr.-Ing Manja Krüger
  Institut für Werkstoff- und Fügetechnik Universitätsplatz 2 Lehrstuhl für Hochtemperaturwerkstoffe, Universität Magdeburg
• Professorin Dr. Alexandra N. Lenz
  Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien
• Professor Dr. Christoph Levin
  Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Abteilung Altes Testament, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
• Professorin Dr. Erica Lilleodden
  Institut für Werkstoffforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht GmbH
• Professor Dr. Hartmut Löwen
  Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Düsseldorf
• Professorin Dr.-Ing. Marion Merklein
  Lehrstuhl für Fertigungstechnologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Professorin Dr. Julia S. Meyer
  PHELIQS Lab CAE, Université Greoble-Alpes
• 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
• 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
• Professorin Dr. Ruth Schmitz-Streit
  Institut für Allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universität Kiel
• Professor Dr. Gerald Schneider
  Fachbereich für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz
• Professorin 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. Dr. Michal-Ruth Schweiger
  Institut für Translationale Epigenetik und Tumorgenetik, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), Universität Köln
• Professorin Dr. Marja Timmermans
  Zentrum für Molekularbiologie der Pflanzen (ZMBP), Universität Tübingen
• Professorin Dr. Helle Ulrich
  Institut für Molekulare Biologie (IMB) gGmbH, Universität Mainz
• Professorin Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass
  Institut für Materialchemie, Technische Universität Wien
• 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
• Professorin Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch
  Institut für Germanistik, Universität Hamburg

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

• Auswärtiges Amt
• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
• Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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.

As of May 2021

Chair

Professorin Dr. Julia Fischer
(Proxy:
Professor Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel
Professorin Dr. Claudia Olk)

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
• Professorin Dr. Heike Behrens
  Deutsches Seminar, Universität Basel
• Professorin 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. Reinhard Fässler
  Abteilung für Molekulare Medizin, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried
• Professorin Dr. Julia Fischer
  Deutsches Primatenzentrum - Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung, Göttingen
• 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
• Professorin Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen
  Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Lehrstuhl Physikalische Chemie II, Universität Bochum
• Professor Dr. Jörn Leonhard
  Historisches Seminar, Universität Freiburg
• Professor Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel
  Institut für Internationales und Ausländisches Privatrecht, Universität zu Köln
• Professor Dr. Thomas F. Münte
  Klinik für Neurologie (Lübeck), Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
• Professorin Dr. Klara Nahrstedt
  Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Professorin Dr. Claudia Olk
  Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität München (LMU)
• Professor Dr. Achim Rosch
  Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Köln
• Professor Dr. Erich Schröger
  Institut für 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. Karl-Theodor Sturm
  Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Bonn
• Professor Dr. Uwe Sunde
  Seminar für Bevölkerungsökonomie, Universität München (LMU)
• Professor Dr. Urs Achim Wiedemann
  Division PH, CERN, Genf

Voting Non-specialist Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

• Auswärtiges Amt
• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
• Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
• Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (voting right in the Reimar Lüst Award Programme)

As of May 2021

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 2021

Chair

Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reißig
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Harald Strauß)

Specialist Committee Members

• Professorin Dr. Anne Baillot
  Faculté des Lettres, Langues et Sciences humaines, Le Mans Université
• Professor Dr. Thomas Benzing
  Klinik II für Innere Medizin, Universität zu Köln
• Professor Dr. Martin Burger
  Naturwissenschaftlische Fakultät, Department Mathematik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Professorin Dr. Stefanie Dehnen
  Fachbereich 15: Chemie, Fachgebiet Anorganische Chemie, Universität Marburg
• Professor Dr. Sebastian Diehl
  Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln
• Professor Dr. Gerhard Ernst
  Institut für Philosophie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Professorin Dr. Saskia F. Fischer
  Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Professorin Dr. Stefanie Gräfe
  Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Jena
• Professorin Dr. Beate Kellner
  Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München
• Professorin Dr. Gabriele Metzler
  Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Professorin Dr. Silke Ospelkaus-Schwarzer
  Institut für Quantenoptik, Universität Hannover
• Professorin Dr. Uta Paszkowski
  Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
• Professor Dr. Hans-Ulrich Reißig
  Institut für Chemie und Biochemie – Abteilung Organische Chemie, Freie Universität Berlin
• Professorin Dr. Karen A. Shire
  Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften,  Institut für Soziologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Professor Dr. Harald Strauß
  Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Münster
• 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:

• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
• 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:

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

As of May 2021

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 2021

Chair

Professorin Dr. Ute Spiekerkötter

(Proxy: Professor Dr. Manuel Cancio Meliá )

Specialist Committee Members

• Professor Dr. Holm J. Altenbach
  Institut für Mechanik, Universität Magdeburg
• Professorin 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
• Professorin Dr. Aranzazu del Campo Becares
  Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH (INM), Saarbrücken
• Professorin Dr. Uta Dickhöfer
  Institut für Tropische Agrarwissenschaften (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institut), Universität Hohenheim
• Professorin Dr. Bettina Engels
  Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
• Professorin Dr. Ute Fendler
  Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft und Komparatistik, Universität Bayreuth
• Professor Dr. Thomas Fillitz
  Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien
• Professorin Dr. Nicola Fohrer
  Ökologie-Zentrum, Fachabteilung für Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft, Universität Kiel
• Professor Dr. Lutz Heide
  Pharmazeutisches Institut, Universität Tübingen
• Professor Dr. Peter Imkeller
  Institut für Mathematik, Bereich Stochastik, 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. Norbert Sewald
  Institut für Organische und Bioorganische Chemie, Universität Bielefeld
• Professorin Dr. Ute Spiekerkötter
  Klinik für Allgemeine Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
• Professorin Dr. Hildegard Westphal
  Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) GmbH, Bremen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funder:

• Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung
   

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisation:

• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

As of May 2021

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. Marlene Bartos
  Institut für Physiologie I, Universität Freiburg
• Professor Dr. Oliver Brock
  Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin
• 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
• Professorin 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. Dierk Raabe
  Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
• Professorin Dr. Ruth Signorell
  Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich
• Professorin Dr. Judith Simon
  Universität Hamburg
• Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
  Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Universität München
• Professor Dr. Benedikt Stuchtey
  Fachgebiet Neuere und Neueste Geschichte II - Neueste Geschichte, Universität Marburg
• Professorin Dr. Maria-Roser Valenti
  Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Professorin Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
  Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen

Non-specialist Voting Committee Members

Representatives of our funders:

• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Hochschulrektorenkonferenz
• Ständige Konferenz der Kultusminister der Länder

Representative of non-university research institutions:

• currently: Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)

Non-specialist Non-voting Committee Members

Representatives of the following partner organisations:

• Auswärtiges Amt

As of May 2021

Chair

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
  Mayer Brown, São Paulo
• Thomas Timm
  Deutsch-Brasilianische Industrie- und Handelskammer, Sao Paulo
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of May 2021

Chair

Guoqiang Wei
Commerzbank AG, Shanghai

Further Committee Members

• Wei Jing
  HRT Investment & Management (Group) Co., Ltd, Suzhou
• Michael Maeder
  Ward Howell International China, Shanghai
• Professorin Dr. Kristin Shi-Kupfer
  Fachbereich II – Sinologie, Universität Trier
• Christian Sommer
  German Center, Shanghai
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of May 2021

Chair

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
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
   

As of May 2021

Chair

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

Further Committee Members

• Dr. Irina Kalinina
  LegalStudies.RU, Moscow
• Olga Kizina
  Creative Industries Agency, Moscow
• Professor Dr. Tatjana Nikitina
  St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, Sankt Petersburg
• Dr. Martin Schneider
  Hauptgeschäftsführer, Verein Deutscher Zementwerke e.V., Düsseldorf
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of September 2021

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 2022

Chair

Dr. Jackson Janes
Johns Hopkins University, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS),Washington, DC

Committee Members

• Prof. Dr. James D. Bindenagel
  Universität Bonn, Center for International Security and Governance, Bonn
• Sudha David-Wilp
  German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
• Dr. Cathleen S. Fisher
  German-American Fulbright Commission, Berlin
• Stormy-Annika Mildner
  Aspen Institute Germany, Berlin
• Stefanie Ziska
  German American Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, GA
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of May 2021

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 2021

Chair

Professor Dr. Martin Zimmer
(Proxy: Hortensia Solis)

Specialist Committee Members

• Dr.-Ing. Richard Arthur
  Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Koforidua Technical University, Ghana
• Professorin Dr. Aletta Bonn
  Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Leipzig
• Professorin Dr. Olanike Deji
  Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
• 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
• Professorin 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. Thomas Schomerus
  Institut für Nachhaltigkeitssteuerung, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
• 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
• Professorin 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
• Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit, 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
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn