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Former President, German Research Foundation (DFG)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Ernst Ludwig Winnacker

  • 2026
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Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker is a German biochemist and geneticist who served as President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1998 to 2006 and became the first Secretary General of the European Research Council (ERC) from 2007 to 2009. He is a professor of biochemistry at LMU Munich.