Axel Brakhage ML: 1989 PhD in Microbiology, University of Münster and Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC) Paris (France); since 2004 Full Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; since 2005 Director, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute Jena. Areas of expertise: infection biology of the human-pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus;
host response to fungal pathogens; molecular/synthetic biotechnology of fungal natural products.
E-Mail: axel.brakhage@leibniz-hki.de
Dirk Brockmann: 2003 PhD in Theoretical Physics, Georg August University, Göttingen; 2003 –2008 Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization; since 2013 head of project group, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; since 2013 Professor, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin. Areas of expertise: physics of complex systems, network sciences, computational social science, computational epidemiology.
E-Mail: dirk.brockmann@hu-berlin.de
Carmen Buchrieser ML: 1986 PhD in Biology, Univer-sity of Salzburg (Austria); 1992–1995 Research Associ-ate Food Research Institute, University of Madison (WI, USA); 1995 –2013 different positions, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France); since 2008 Director of the Unit Biology of Intracel-lular Bacteria, Institut Pasteur; since 2014 Professor, Institut Pasteur. Areas of expertise: infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology, cellular biology, genomics.
E-Mail: carmen.buchrieser@pasteur.fr
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Wolfram Burgard ML: 1991 PhD in Computer Science, University of Bonn; 1991–1999 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, University of Bonn; since 1999 Professor for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Freiburg; 2002 Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA, USA); since 2014 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Areas of expertise: robotics, artificial intelligence.
E-Mail: burgard@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Iain D. Couzin: 1999 PhD in Biology, University of Bath (UK); 2013 –2015 Full Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (NJ, USA);
since 2015 Director, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Department of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz and Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz. Areas of expertise: collective animal behaviour, social evolution, computational biology.
E-Mail: icouzin@orn.mpg.de
Eran Elinav: 1999 MD, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel); 2009 PhD in Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel); 2009 –2012 Post Doctorate Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (CT, USA); since 2012 Primary investigator, Weizmann Institute of Science; since 2015 Director, Weizmann Institute research centre for the study of the microbiome.
Areas of expertise: microbiome, immunology, gastrointestinal disease, metabolism.
E-Mail: eran.elinav@weizmann.ac.il
Marc Thilo Figge: 2000 PhD in Physics, University Gronin-gen; 2005 –2010 Junior Fellow in Theoretical Immunology, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Goethe Uni-versity Frankfurt (Main); since 2011 Head of research group Applied Systems Biology, Hans Knöll Institute Jena; since 2011 Professor (W2) for Applied Systems Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Areas of expertise: systems biology, mathematical modelling, automated analysis of image data.
E-Mail: thilo.figge@hki-jena.de
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Bärbel Friedrich ML: 1973 Doctorate in Microbiology, University of Göttingen; 1985 –2013 Full Professor of Microbiology, Free University and Humboldt University of Berlin; 2005 –2015 Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; since 2008 Scientific Director, Alfried Krupp Institute of Advanced Studies, Greifswald. Areas of expertise: synthesis, structure and function of hydrogen-converting enzymes, functional genome research of lithoautotropic bacterial metabolism.
E-Mail: baerbel.friedrich@cms.hu-berlin.de
Angela D. Friederici ML: 1976 Doctorate in Linguistics, University of Bonn; 1980 Diplom-Psychologin, University of Bonn; 1989 –1991 Full Professor (C3) for Cognitive Psychology, Free University of Berlin; 1991–1994 Full Professor (C4) for Psychology, Free University of Berlin; since 1994 Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig; since 2014 Vice-President, Max Planck Society, Munich. Areas of expertise: neurocognition of language.
E-Mail: friederici@cbs.mpg.de
Jörg Hacker ML: 1979 Doctorate in Biology, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale); 1988 –2008 Professor for Microbiology; since 1993 Head of the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg; 2000 and 2005 research visits at the Institute Pasteur, Paris (France);
2008 –2010 President, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; since 2010 President, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle (Saale). Areas of expertise: science policy, molecular biology.
E-Mail: joerg.hacker@leopoldina.org
Dirk Helbing ML: 1992 PhD in Physics, University of Stuttgart; 2000 –2007 Full Professor and Managing Director, Institute of Transport and Economics, Dresden University of Technology; since 2007 Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland); since 2016 Affiliate Professor, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft; The Netherlands). Areas of expertise:
pedestrian crowds, vehicle traffic, agent-based models of social systems.
E-Mail: dirk.helbing@gess.ethz.ch
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Alan Kirman: 1971 PhD Princeton University (NJ, USA);
1974 –1976 Professor of Economics, Warwick University (UK); 1977–1986 and 1995 –2008 Professor, Université d’Aix-Marseille and Directeur d’Etudes, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France); 1987–1995 Professor of Economics and Head of Economics Department, European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Areas of expertise: game theory, economics of interaction, behavioural economics, history of economic thought, complexity theory.
E-Mail: alan.kirman@ehess.fr
Thomas Lengauer ML: 1976 Doctorate in Mathematics, Free University of Berlin; 1979 PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University (CA, USA); 1984 –2001 Full Professor of Computer Science, University of Paderborn and University of Bonn; 1992–2001 Director, Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, GMD, Sankt Augustin; since 2001 Director, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken;
since 2015 Member of the Presidential Board of Leopoldina.
Areas of expertise: computational biology.
E-Mail: lengauer@mpi-inf.mpg.de
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ML: 1973 PhD in Genetics, Max-Planck-Institut für Virusforschung, Tübingen; 1985 –2014 Director, Department of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen; since 1991 Honorary Professor, University Tübingen; 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology; since 2014 Head of Emeritus Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen.
Areas of expertise: embryogenesis, developmental genetics, pattern formation, drosophila, zebrafish.
E-Mail: cnv@tuebingen.mpg.de
Peter Schuster ML: 1967 PhD in Chemistry, University of Vienna (Austria); 1973 –2009 Full Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna; since 1991 External Professor, Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA); 1992–1995 Founding Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Jena;
2006 –2009 President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences;
since 2009 Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna. Areas of expertise: theoretical chemistry, mathematical biology, RNA structure and function.
E-Mail: pks@tbi.univie.ac.at
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Wolf Singer ML: 1968 MD, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich; 1975 Habilitation for Physiology, TU Munich;
1981–2011 Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt (Main); Founding Director: Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Frankfurt, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (ESI) in cooperation with Max Planck Society; since 2011 Emeritus status, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and Senior Fellow of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (ESI). Areas of expertise: cognitive neuroscience.
E-Mail: wolf.singer@brain.mpg.de
Rudolf Stichweh: 1983 PhD in Sociology, Bielefeld University; 1994 –2003 Professor for Sociology, Bielefeld University; 2003 –2012 Professor for Sociology, University of Lucerne (Switzerland); 2011 Visiting Professor, Princeton University (NJ, USA); since 2012 Dahrendorf Professor for Theory of Modern Society and Director of the ‘Forum International Science’, Head of Department Democracy Research, University of Bonn. Areas of expertise: sociology of science and universities.
E-Mail: rstichweh@yahoo.de
Thorsten Wiegand: 1992 PhD in Physics, University of Mar-burg; since 1997 Staff Scientist, Department of Ecological Modelling, Umweltforschungszentrum (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, UFZ) Leipzig; 1999 Habilitation in Theoretical Ecology, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich; 1999 –2010 Lecturer, Graduate School of Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina);
2009 –2015 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant SPATIODIVERSITY. Areas of expertise: ecological modelling, spatial pattern analysis, spatially-explicit and in-dividual-based simulation models, optimisation.
E-Mail: thorsten.wiegand@ufz.de