Beatrice Lugger

Beatrice Lugger is Vice President of Communications of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. From 2015 to 2024, she was CEO of the National Institute for Science Communication (NaWik), which she helped establish from 2012 as Deputy Scientific Director. A trained science journalist with a background in chemistry, Lugger serves on multiple councils as a science communication expert, including the steering committee of the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space’s #FactoryWisskomm initiative and the advisory board of the Bavarian AHA Science Communication Hub. She also contributed to the German Science and Humanities Council’s position paper on science communication.