Professor Lucia A. Reisch appointed as member to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering
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acatech is growing: Thirteen new members appointed to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering
Berlin, July 27th, 2012. The German National Academy of Science and Engineering has appointed thirteen new members. The academy honors an outstanding academic performance with an appointment and invites its members to contribute their competencies to politics and society. The new members strengthen the topic networks and projects of the academy, where recommendations are developed.
New members were selected for appointment at the last general meeting. The general meeting of acatech defines the mission and strategies of the academy. Every member is active in one of the following ten topic networks:
Biotechnology & Bioeconomy
Energy & Resources
Healthcare Technologies
Information & Communication Technology
Mobility, Logistics & Aerospace Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Nanotechnology
Product Development & Production
Safety and Security
Society & Technology
The individual appointments enlarging the circle of members to 380 are:
Professor Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems at the TU Dresden
Professor Kai Konrad, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance Munich
Professor Axel Kuhn, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics Dortmund
Professor E.W. (Bert) Meijer, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology
Professor Rolf Müller, Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Saarland University and Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)
Professor Lucia A. Reisch, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at the Copenhagen Business School and Institute of Communication & Cultural Management at the Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen
Professor Petra Schwille, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried
Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, RWE Innogy GmbH and Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg
Professor Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, Department of Economics at the University of Cologne and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn
Professor Robert Weigel, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Professor Dirk Weuster-Botz, Institute of Biochemical Engineering at the Technische Universität München
Professor Wolfgang Wiechert, Institute of Computational Systems Biotechnology at the RWTH Aachen University and Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at the Forschungszentrum Jülich
Professor Katja Windt, School of Engineering and Science at the Jacobs University Bremen
About acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering
acatech represents the interests of German scientific and technological communities, at home and abroad. It is an autonomous, independent non-profit organization. As a working academy, acatech supports policy-makers and society, providing qualified technical evaluations and forward looking recommendations. Moreover, acatech is determined to support knowledge transfer between science and industry, and encourages the next generation of engineers. The members of acatech are admitted to the organisation on the basis of their outstanding scientific achievements and excellent reputation. acatech is a non-profit agency. Its funding comes from the Federal government and the German states. Additional sources of funding include donations and third parties in relation to specific projects.
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