Selection Committees of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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 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 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