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Steering Committee

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Photo: Members of the 2020 Steering Committee, the FRIAS directorate and Managing Director in Freiburg in October 2021.  

The FRIAS Steering Committee supervises the work of the institute. It gives recommendations on all matters of fundamental and long-term importance. These recommendations are taken up both by the FRIAS directorate and the rectorate of the university. The Steering Committee consists of five external and nine internal members, among them representatives of the faculties, research centres, students and junior researchers. The FRIAS Steering Committee convenes once a year. 

 

Steering Committee Members:

External members

  • Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers, Professor of Science Studies, ETH Zürich, and President of the Swiss Science Council (Chair of the Steering Committee)
  • Dr. Enno Aufderheide, Secretary-General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Dr. Anke Beck, Regional Director Publishing Development, Europe at the Public Library of Science
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Esfeld, Professor for Philosophy of Science, Université de Lausanne
  • Prof. Dr. Julika Griem, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, and Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

 

Internal members:

  • Prof. Dr. Barbara Korte, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Speaker of the DFG Graduate School 2571 Empires
  • Prof. Dr. Carola Hunte, Professor of Biochemistry and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Medicine
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Jung, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Vice-Spreaker of the CRC 992 Medical Epigenetics
  • Prof. Dr. Daniela Kleinschmit, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Policy and Vice-President for Internationalisation and Sustainability
  • Prof. Dr. Claas Lahmann, Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
  • Prof. Dr. Johanna Pink, Professor of Islamic Studies and the History of Islam

  • Dr. Henriette Franz, junior researcher representative;

  • Lea von Berg, doctoral student representative

 

 

 

Last update: December 2023