General Advisory Board

The General Advisory Board is an independent council that advises our institute on relevant societal, political and knowledge policy issues. It acts as an intermediary to our external public and is composed of different representatives from politics, business, academia and science, and the media. The General Advisory Board meets once a year in our institute and is appointed every six years. The participation in the General Advisory Board is voluntary.

(Picture: The Members of our General Advisory Board at the last meeting in October 2022 in front of the MPQ - f.l.t.r. Prof. Ullrich, Prof. Huber, Prof. Elsässer, Prof. Heckl (Chairman), Min. Dir. Greiner, Dr. Härtel)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser

Director
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Berlin

MinDir Michael Greiner

Head of Department Central Affairs, Digitisation and IT
Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts
Munich

Dr. Christoph Grote

Division Manager Electronics
BMW Group
Munich

Dr. Dietmar Gruchmann

First Mayor
City of Garching

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter

Director
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Garching

Dr. Carlos Härtel

Chief Technology Officer
Climeworks AG
Munich

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl

Chairman of the General Advisory Board
Director-General
Deutsches Museum, Munich

Prof. Dr. Bernd Huber

President
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Munich

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kramer

Senior Vice President
Research and InnovationTechnical University of Munich
Munich

Ralf Krauter

Science Reporter
Cologne

MinDir Volker Rieke

Ministerial Director
Department Manager Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Bonn

Dr.-Ing. Christian Schmitz

Managing Director
TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH & Co.KG Ditzingen

Prof. Dr. Sigmund Stintzing

Vice President
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Munich

Prof. Dr. Joachim H. Ullrich

President
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt PTB
Braunschweig