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 January 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
• Professor Dr. Günter Brenn
  Institut für Strömungslehre und Wärmeübertragung, Technische Universität Graz
• Professor Dr. Matei Chihaia
  Fachbereich A, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften - Romanistik, Universität Wuppertal
• 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. 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. 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. 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
• Professor Dr. Tanja Gulder
  Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Leipzig
• Professor Dr. Christian Hackenbecker
  Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), 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. 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
• 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.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer
  Institut für Angewandte Materialien -Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik (IAM-WET), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
• Professor Dr.-Ing Manja Krüger
  Institut für Werkstoff- und Fügetechnik Universitätsplatz 2 Lehrstuhl für Hochtemperaturwerkstoffe, Universität Magdeburg
• Professor Dr. Christoph Levin
  Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Abteilung Altes Testament, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
• Professor Dr. Dieter Chichung Lie
  Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Institut für Biochemie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Professor Dr. Hartmut Löwen
  Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Düsseldorf
• Professor Dr.-Ing. Marion Merklein
  Lehrstuhl für Fertigungstechnologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 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. Johannes Paulmann
  Abteilung für Universalgeschichte, Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
• Professor Dr. Dennis Pausch
  Institut für Klassische Philologie, Technische Universität Dresden
• 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. Gerald Schneider
  Fachbereich für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft, Universität Konstanz
• 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
• 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. Helle Ulrich
  Institut für Molekulare Biologie (IMB) gGmbH, Universität Mainz
• Professor Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass
  Fachbereich Chemie, Arbeitsgruppe Festkörperchemie und Bioanorganische Chemie, Universität Konstanz
• 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
• 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

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 January 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Julia Fischer
(Proxy: Professor Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen, Professor 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
• 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. Reinhard Fässler
  Abteilung für Molekulare Medizin, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried
• Professor 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
• Professor Dr. Martina Havenith-Newen
  Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie, Lehrstuhl Physikalische Chemie II, Universität Bochum
• 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. Claudia Olk
  Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität München (LMU)
• 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. Urs Achim Wiedemann
  Division PH, CERN, Genf

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)

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 January 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
  Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Department Mathematik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 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

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: January 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

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.

As of: January 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. Dierk Raabe
  Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf
• 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

Thomas Timm
Deutsch-Brasilianische Industrie- und Handelskammer, São Paulo

Further Committee Members

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

As of January 2023

Chair

Michael Maeder
Ward Howell International China, Shanghai

Further Committee Members

• 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 Center, Shanghai
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

As of January 2023

Chair

Professor Dr. Rekha Vaidya Rajan
Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Languages, Centre of German Studies, Delhi

Further Committee Members

• Professorin Dr. Rekha Vaidya Rajan
  Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Languages, Centre of German Studies, Delhi
• Bernhard Steinruecke
  Indo-German Chamber Of Commerce, Mumbai
• Representative of the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
   

As of January 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 January 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 January 2023

Chair

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

Committee Members

• Sudha David-Wilp
  German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
• Dr. Jackson Janes
  Johns Hopkins University, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Washington, DC
• Stormy-Annika Mildner
  Aspen Institute Germany, 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 January 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
• 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. 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
• 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