Advisory Board

The Falling Walls Foundation receives advice, support and guidance from its Advisory Board – an international group of distinguished leaders from science and science policy. The Board is chaired by Jürgen Mlynek, the former president of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

Jürgen Mlynek

Chairman

Jürgen Mlynek

Falling Walls Foundation

Annette Schavan

Chairwoman of the Board

Annette Schavan

Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung

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Board Member | Managing Director & CEO

Olaf Brock

Hannover re Foundation | Hannover Retakaful B.S.C. (c)

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CEO

Georg Schütte

Volkswagen Foundation

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Vice President I Vice Provost of Global Futures

Peter Schlosser

Arizona State University

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Science Fellow

Norbert Holtkamp

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

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President

Kohei Itoh

Keio University

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Professor I Jury Chair

Melanie Smallman

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Magdalena Skipper

Editor in Chief of Nature

Magdalena Skipper

Springer Nature

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Former Vice President – Research & Innovation

Alice Aiken

Dalhousie University

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Former President

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

European Research Council

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President

Simone Menne

American Chamber of Commerce in Germany

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Chairman Supervisory Boards

Bernd Scheifele

Heidelberg Materials AG & PHOENIX Pharma SE

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President

Adam F. Falk

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Professor of Physics

Young-Kee Kim

The University of Chicago

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CEO

Richard Socher

you.com

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Former Minister of Education, Culture & Science

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Netherlands

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CEO I Chairman of the Board

Frank Stietz

Heraeus Group

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Chairman of the Management Board

Thierry Coulhon

Institut Polytechnique de Paris

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President

Georg Krausch

Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

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Chair of the Board of Directors

Astrid Lambrecht

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Profilbild Günter M. Ziegler

President

Günter M. Ziegler

Freie Universität Berlin

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President

Oliver Günther

University of Potsdam

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Rector

Johannes Wessels

University of Münster

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President

Patrick Cramer

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

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President I Jury Chair

Ian Walmsley

Imperial College London

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Professor

Carl-Henrik Heldin

Uppsala University

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Former President

Helga Nowotny

European Research Council

Ernst Rietschel

Founding Director

Ernst Rietschel

Berlin Institute of Health

Johannes Vogel

Director-General

Johannes Vogel

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Paul Pauli

President

Paul Pauli

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Jan S. Hesthaven

President

Jan Hesthaven

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Chairman

Hiroshi Komiyama

The Science and Technology in Society Forum

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Former Director-General

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

CERN

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Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Martin Sonnenschein

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

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CSO

Wolfram Münch

EnBW

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Administrative Director

Christian Scherf

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

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