The board of trustees advises the organs of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft as well as the institute management and promotes the institute's contacts to organizations and industry.
The members of our board of trustees from industry, science and ministries are:
Dr. Harald Seulberger - Chairman of the Board
formerly BASF
Stefan Lütke Entrup
Gemeinschaft zur Förderung von Pflanzeninnovation e.V., Bonn
Manfred Nettekoven
Chancelor of RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Patermann
former director of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Bonn
Dr. Thomas Preuss
Bayer, Monheim
Dr. Karin Schlesier
Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin
Dr. Oliver Schlüter
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, Potsdam
Dr. Doreen Schachtschnabel
BASF Belgium, Gent
Dr. Erik Schmolz
Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels
University Münster
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wiese
formerly member of the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Ulrike Zimmer
German Chemical Industry Association, Frankfurt
Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME