Heide Ahrens

Dr. Heide Ahrens is Secretary General of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) since October 2020. Since 1995, she has held various positions in research funding, management and policy in Germany. From 2017 to September 2020 she headed the Science Department at the Senator for Science and Ports of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.