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 2025 in front of the MPQ - f.l.t.r. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kramer, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hermann Ullrich, Dr. Christoph Grote, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz, Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsässer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos J. Jiménez Härtel, Ralf Krauter)

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz

President
Physikalisch -Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Braunschweig

Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsässer

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
Garching

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter

Director
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Garching

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos J. Jiménez Härtel

Chief Technology Officer
Climeworks AG, Switzerland
Munich

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl

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

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kramer

Senior Vice President
Research and InnovationTechnical University of Munich
Munich

Ralf Krauter

Science Reporter
Cologne

Dr. -Ing. E.h. Peter Leibinger

Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Chief Technology Officer
TRUMPF SE + Co. KG
Ditzingen

Prof. Dr. Joachim H. Ullrich

Vice President
German Physical Society e.V. (DPG)
Bad Honnef