Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board is concerned with the future development of the Zukunftskolleg. Its members are renowned researchers from Germany and abroad who enjoy international recognition in their research field. With their external view and expertise, they advise the executive committee and propose strategies for advancing the Zukunftskolleg’s profile.
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Raghavendra Gadagkar obtained B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc. in Zoology from Bangalore University and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. During the past 25 years he has established an active school of research in the area of Animal Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany) in 2015, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biology in 1993 and the The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in 1999. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Secretary, 1995-2000), the Indian National Science Academy (President, 2014-2016), the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA and, the German National Science Academy Leopoldina. He was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy. As the founder chair of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Gadagkar has initiated a new experiment that endeavours to engage some of the best practitioners of different disciplines in the human sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, economics, law, literature, poetry, art, music, cinema etc. and aims to forge meaningful interaction between the natural and human sciences
Homepage: https://ces.iisc.ac.in/?q=user/33
Prof. Dr. David Gugerli
Professor for History of Technology at the ETH Zürich
Following studies in history and literature he received his PhD in history in 1987. In 1995, he obtained a venia legendi (Habilitation) at the University of Zurich for modern history and in 1997 was appointed assistant professor at ETH Zurich. He has served as guest researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris (1988 and 1991), visiting fellow at Stanford University (1992), visiting scientist at the Colegio de México (1989-1993), fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1993/94), fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna (1994) and professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1996). In 2006 he was a guest of the rector at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2008/2009 a senior fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. 2014/15 he was a senior fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He is a founding member of the Center for History of Knowledge, which is supported by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. He served as chair of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) and as a member of the ETH Zurich Research Committee. From 2009 to 2016, he lead the Strategy Committee at ETH Zurich.
Homepage: https://www.tg.ethz.ch/en/people/details/david-gugerli/
Prof. Dr. Sabine von Heusinger
Professor of Medieval History/ late Middle Ages, University of Cologne
Sabine von Heusinger studied at the University Constance and the University of L’Aquila/Italy. She received her PhD in Constance with a thesis on the question why one Dominican persecuted pious women (so called beguines) at the beginning of the 15th century at Basle. After a research stay at University of California at Berkeley, she completed her second thesis (Habilitation) at Mannheim with a prosprographic study on the largest social group in medieval towns, the guilds. She developed a new definition of “guilds,” encompassing economic, religious, political and military tasks carried out by both male and female guild members.
In 2010, she was a Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg. Since 2011, she held the position of Chair of Late Medieval History at the University of Cologne. In 2014, she was elected as Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata at University of Cologne. In 2017, she was awarded the John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. Since its beginning in 2017, she is a Principal Investigator at the Cologne Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) on the “Dynamics of Conventionality”, funded by the German Science Foundation. Her current research projects include Christian and Jewish craftspeople in medieval towns, and the beginning of serial production in relation to material culture in a global context at the end of the Middle Ages.
Homepage: http://mittelalterliche-geschichte.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personal/universitaetsprofessorinnen/von-heusinger-sabine
Prof. Michael Matlosz
President of EuroScience
Professor Michael Matlosz holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a PhD in electrochemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (USA). He began his professional research career in 1985 in the department of materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland), prior to appointment in 1993 as university professor of chemical process engineering at the University of Lorraine in Nancy (France). More recently, Professor Matlosz served from 2014 to 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR) in Paris. An elected member of the National Academy of Technologies of France since 2011, Professor Matlosz was also President of Science Europe, the Brussels-based advocacy association for European research performing and research funding organisations. Currently a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at the University of Lorraine, Professor Matlosz began in July 2018 a four-year term of office as President of EuroScience, the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
Links: https://council.science/profile/michael-matlosz/
Elke aus dem Moore
Curator, former Director of the Academy Schloss Solitude
Until April 2018, Elke aus dem Moore was head of the art department of the ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. She was responsible for the content of ifa's international exhibition program and gave important impulses to international cultural exchange through numerous exhibitions, conferences, funding programs and workshops. Exemplary was the artistic platform on art, fashion and urbanity Prêt-à-Partager, initiated by Elke aus dem Moore, which took place in numerous African locations and in Berlin and Stuttgart. Other important projects include the collective exhibition project Politics of Sharing - On Collective Wisdom (2016/2017) in cooperation with Adnan Yildiz and the conference Curating Under Pressure (2015), which took place in New Zealand. For documenta 14 she curated - in cooperation with aneducation - the gathering Under the Mango Tree - Sites of Learning, which presented international perspectives on new educational models in art.
Elke aus dem Moore studied literature and art studies in Osnabrück, Zurich and Bochum and was curator for contemporary art at the Shedhalle Zurich from 1999 to 2002. As director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, she was responsible for the international exhibition program from 2003 to 2006. She published numerous exhibition catalogs and articles for various magazines. Furthermore, she is initiator and co-founder of the online magazine Contemporary and (C&) as well as the International Biennial Association - IBA.
Web: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/person/elke-aus-dem-moore/
Dr. Manuela Nocker
Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, University of Essex
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Zukunftskolleg (2017-2020)
Manuela Nocker teaches Organisation Studies; Business Ethics as well as Research Methodology. She has held two mandates as Undergraduate Programme Director overseeing all courses in the Management Science and Entrepreneurship Group (2012 - July 2019). Manuela is the representative for the PRME programme on Principles of Responsible Management Education at Essex Business School. She also is the institutional representative and liaison across departments for the UNAI Academic Impact scheme and engages in the UN Global Compact initiative, endorsed at university-level to promote sustainability and ethical principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption (www.unglobalcompact.org). She has been a Senate member at this University and a member of public boards in South Tyrol/Italy at institutions in the areas of education, research and innovation. She has been Vice-President of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (2014-18) and its university council member (2010-14). Manuela has worked as careers adviser, trainer and management consultant prior to becoming an academic at EBS in 2006 (Southend Campus).
Homepage: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/nocke67409/manuela-nocker
Prof. Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer
Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute
Since 2003, she has been the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. She has also served as Chair of the Irish Council since 2015. She was President of the Irish Historical Society from 2003 to 2005, and Vice-Provost for Global Relations at TCD from 2011 to 2014. In 2011, Ohlmeyer was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), the premier all-Ireland learned society for the sciences and humanities. Professor Ohlmeyer is an expert on the New British and Atlantic Histories and has published extensively on early modern Irish and British history. She is also an active proponent of 'Digital Humanities'. She has recently led Trinity’s bid as part of a consortium of partners for the successful award of €1.5million for the project ‘Shape-ID’, ‘Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe’, funded by European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/history/staff/ohlmeyej.php
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/people/institute-staff.php
Ursula Schwarzenbart
Former Director Global Diversity Daimler,
Former Member of the University Council, University of Konstanz (03/2009-02/2018)
Ursula Schwarzenbart established Daimler's Global Diversity Office in 2005. As Chief Diversity Officer, she is responsible for the wide range of global diversity activities. In addition to this function, Ursula Schwarzenbart has been shaping Group-wide talent management since 2010 and is involved in HR development topics in Leadership 2020.
Homepage: https://group.mercedes-benz.com/nachhaltigkeit/grundlagen/beschaeftigte/diversity-inclusion.html
Prof. Dr. Vinod Subramaniam
President of the University of Twente, Chair for Biophysics
Member of the Excellence Strategy Council of the University of Konstanz
Vinod Subramaniam is President of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where he is also professor of biophysics. He was previously Rector Magnificus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and was director of the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from September 2013-September 2015. He was Senior Fellow at the Zukunfskolleg at the University of Konstanz in Germany. He was trained in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics (Cornell University and University of Michigan, USA), and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany and the Advanced Science and Technology Laboratory of AstraZeneca in Loughborough, UK before being appointed full professor at the University of Twente in 2004. His research focuses on nanoscale protein biophysics. His work has been recognized by the Fluorescence Young Investigator Award of the Biophysical Society.
Homepage: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eb/members/#profdr-vinod-subramaniam-president-executive-board
Dr. Ingrid Wünning-Tschol
Head of the Robert Bosch Center for Healthcare Innovation at the Bosch Health Campus, Stuttgart, Germany
Until 2022, Ingrid Wünning Tschol was Senior Vice-President and Head of Health and Research at the Robert Bosch Foundation. Born in 1958, she received her PhD in Biology from the University of Tübingen Germany in 1985. 1985 -1990 she did postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and State University of New York in Stony Brook, USA. Further stations in her career were: Head of Molecular Biology/ Cell Biology Unit at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn/Germany, Head of Medical Section at the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg/France. Since 1999 she has been with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart/Germany. She is or was member of numerous national and international committees. Amongst them she served as Vice Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB), which directly advised the European Commissioner for Research from 2008 to 2011, during this time she was also a member of the Scottish Government Personal & Support Research Fellowship Selection Panel of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. More recent committee activities include her Chairmanship of the EFC-Research Forum, her membership in the Advisory Board of the Max-Planck Institut für die Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme in Magdeburg, in the Steering Committee for ESOF 2016 in Copenhagen, the Board of Trustees for the Falling Walls Conference, the Universitätsrat Ulm or in the Advisory Board of the Uppsala Health Summit.
Links: https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de/pilotprojekte-fuer-eine-bessere-gesundheitsversorgung
Former Scientific Advisory Board Members
- Paul B. Baltes (2002-2006)
- Andreas Barner ( 2012-2017)
- Thomas Bräuninger ( 2012-2017)
- Alexandra Brand (2017-2021
- Ute Frevert (2009-2012)
- Bernard Frischer ( 2012-2017)
- Gerhart von Graevenitz (2009-2016)
- Michael John Hannon (2017-2021)
- Henrike Hartmann (2012-2021)
- Harald zur Hausen (2007-2010)
- Thomas Hengartner † (2017-2018)
- Jean-Baptiste Joly (2017-2021)
- Rainer Maria Kiesow (2012-2021)
- Jürgen Mittelstraß (2002-2012)
- Jürgen Mlynek (2009-2012)
- Christoph Möllers (2009-2012)
- Joybrato Mukherjee (2012 -2017)
- Joachim Nettelbeck (2007-2012)
- Helga Nowotny (2012-2015)
- Shalini Randeria (2009-2012)
- Ulrich Raulff (2009-2012)
- Walter Salzburger (2009-2012)
- Heike Schmoll (2009-2012)
- Dagmar Schmieder (2017-2021)
- René Schwarzenbach (2012 -2017)
- Giuseppe Testa (2009-2012)
- Dorothea Wagner (2012-2021)
- Anton Zeilinger (2002-2007)