Professor Lucia A. Reisch appointed as member to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering

acatech is growing: Thirteen new members appointed to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering

09/08/2012

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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.

 

Contact

Dorothea Schildt

Referentin Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

acatech – DEUTSCHE AKADEMIE

DER TECHNIKWISSENSCHAFTEN

Hauptstadtbüro

Unter den Linden 14

10117 Berlin

T +49 (0)30 20 63 09 6-41

M +49 (0)172 144 58 53

F +49 (0)30 20 63 09 6-11

schildt@acatech.de

www.acatech.de

Registergericht AG München, Register-Nr. VR 20 20 21

Vorstand i.S.v. § 26 BGB: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Henning Kagermann,

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr. h. c. Reinhard Hüttl, PD Dr. Michael Klein

Sidst opdateret: Sekretariat for Ledelse og Kommunikation // 12/10/2012