Organisation

CHAIRMAN

Dr Marcus Pleyer
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
(delegated to the Supervisory Board by the Federal Government)

MEMBERS
 

Dr. Karen Köhler
Vice President, Lead Science Policy & Science Engagement of Bayer AG
(elected to the Supervisory Board)
 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst
Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation
(elected to the Supervisory Board)
 
Dr. Henry Marx
State Secretary for Science and Research in the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Health and Care
(delegated to the Supervisory Board by the federal government)
 

Jürgen Müller 
Ministerial Director and Head of the Department for Strategy and Digitalization at the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ)
(delegated to the Supervisory Board by the federal government)
 

Sabine Poschmann 
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB)
(delegated to the Supervisory Board by the federal government)

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn
Founding Director and Director of the Department “Structural Change of the Technosphere”, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, Professor of the History of Science at Humboldt University in Berlin and at Freie Universität Berlin
(elected to the Supervisory Board)

Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland
Director of the NMI - Natural and Medical Sciences Institute and Professor of Medical Technology and Regenerative Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen 
(elected to the Supervisory Board) 
 

Médard Schoenmaeckers
Chairman of the Management Board of Boehringer Ingelheim Deutschland GmbH
(elected to the Supervisory Board)
 

Dr. Maria Wienker
Ministerial Director and Director of Central Services, Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
(delegated to the Supervisory Board by the Federal Government)

CHAIRWOMAN

Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen
Director at the Center for Life Ethics, Universität Bonn

VICE-CHAIRMAN
 

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Graf
Professor at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the FU Berlin

MEMBERS:

Mag. Peter Aufreiter
CEO Vienna Museum of Science and Technology
 

Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Director at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan
Director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
Director at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)

Prof. Manuel J. Hartung
Chairman of the executive board at ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS

Thomas Holl
Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Emerge Tech GmbH
 

Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
President of the Goethe Institute and Professor for Design Research at the Universität der Künste Berlin
 

Prof. Dr. Johannes Vogel, Ph.D.
Director at the Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science

Prof. Dr. Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe, Professor for Innovation and Technology Management iTM at the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation (ENTECHNON) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann
Professor of Climate System Analysis at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and University of Potsdam, Physics Institute, Germany; Co-Lead of PIK Future-Lab Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene

The Futurium’s partners include, in addition to the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, a number of research organisations: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. – DAAD), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), acatech – German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e.V.), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the Promotion of Applied Sciences (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.), the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V.), the Joachim Herz Stiftung, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.) and the Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz). The business world is represented by Bayer AG and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG.
 

The inclusion of additional partners is intended.