Matthias Nöllenburg

Dr. Matthias Nöllenburg is program director at the VolkswagenStiftung in Hannover [and deputy head of the team „Societal Transformations“]. He has been in charge of the special support program for refugee scholars and scientists from Ukraine and, since 2014, for the program „Trilateral Partnerships – Cooperation Projects between Scientists from Ukraine, russia and Germany“. From 2002 until now, his main responsibility has been the Foundation’s Central Asia & Caucasus funding initiative. He is a plant biologist by training, studied at the universities of Bonn and Göttingen, UC Riverside and the Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and holds a PhD in agricultural sciences from the University of Göttingen