The Foundation Staff

Fachgebiete:

• Health Sciences
• Medicine

Förderinitiativen:

• Communicating Science and Research

• World Knowledge – Structural Support for "Rare Subjects"

Program Director in the funding team "Challenges — for Academia and Society", has been responsible for projects from the engineering and material sciences as well as mathematics.

Background: Studied Physics at the University of Tübingen and  NMI Reutlingen, Doctoral studies in the area of Materials Science at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research at the University of Stuttgart, later research assistant; previously worked for DECHEMA, Frankfurt am Main, in the areas of research and research funding.

Subject areas:

• Computer Sciences  
• Engineering Sciences  
• Mathematics  

Funding initiatives:

• Niedersächsisches Vorab
• Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future
• Integration of Molecular Components in Functional Macroscopic Systems (completed in 2016)

Program Director in the funding team "Challenges – for Academia and Society". Responsible for projects in life sciences, especially in Biomedicine.

Background: Studies of Biology with focus on Microbiology, Genetics, and Biochemistry at the University of Göttingen (Institute of Microbiology and Genetics). Doctoral studies and Postdoc at the Hannover Medical School (Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology).

Subject areas:

• Biomedicine  

Funding initiatives:

• Experiment! – In search of bold research ideas
• Life? – A Fresh Scientific Approach to the Basic Principles of Life