Board of Trustees
The common Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry supports the exchange between the institutes and the public and advises the institutes on social and scientific policy. Members are elected to the board for a six-year term and offer the institutes perspectives from important areas of politics, economics, science, and the media. The Board of Trustees convenes once per year. It is currently composed of the following members (2019-2024):
Dr. Alison Abbott
Writer and Consultant with 'Nature', Munich
Dr. Gabriele Andretta
President State Parliament Lower Saxony, Hanover
Fritz Güntzler
Electoral district office Göttingen, member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin
Rainer Hald
Chief executive officer of the Sparkasse Göttingen, Göttingen
Ursula Haufe
Managing director of the society for business and urban development Göttingen
Rolf-Georg Köhler
Mayor city of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Koller
former Aventis Pharma − Funtional Genomics, Bad Soden
Thomas Kopietz
Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine, head of editorial office Göttingen
Dr. Wilhelm Krull
VolkswagenStiftung, Hanover
Karola Margraf
District mayor Göttingen-Nikolausberg
Prof. Hans-Georg Näder
Managing partner Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA, Duderstadt
Thomas Oppermann (✝ 25.10.2020)
member of the German Federal Parliament, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pöllath
Chief executive officer of the Max-Planck-Förderstuftung, München
Björn Thümler
Minister for Science and Culture in Lower Saxony, Hanover
Walter Willems
German Press Agency, department for Science, Berlin