To ensure we are best placed to achieve our aims, Forschungszentrum Jülich is supported by a Scientific Advisory Council made up of renowned personalities. The Council advises the Board of Directors on matters of fundamental and strategic importance and critically assesses Forschungszentrum Jülich from an external perspective.
The committee consists of members who are not employees of the company. They are appointed by the Supervisory Board, as a rule for five years. The chairperson is a member of the Supervisory Board.
Members
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Clarke, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Switzerland (Chair)
Prof. Dr. Asaph Aharoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Sabine Herlitschka, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria
Dr. Deborah J. Jones, CNRS – University of Montpellier, France
Dr. Martin Keller, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Prof. Dr. Maki Kawai, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
Dr. Walter J. Koch, BASF SE, Germany
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Maniscalco, University of Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Matic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Dr. Mary E. Maxon, Carnegie Science, USA
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, TU Berlin, Germany
Prof. Spyros Pandis, University of Patras, Greece / Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Prof. Dr. Armin Schnettler, Vice-President VDE and CEO P3 energy solutions GmbH, Germany
Dr. Fred Streitz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Alumni
Prof. Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA
Prof. Dr. T. W. Clyne, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Frank-Detlef Drake, E.ON Energy Research Center gGmbH, Germany
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll, AIT, Austria
Prof. Dr. Toni M. Kutchan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA
Prof. Dr. Karen Maex, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nadya Mason, University of Illinois, USA
Dr. Peter Nagler, (previously Evonik Industries AG), Germany
Prof. Dr. Eva Pebay-Peyroula, ANR, France
Prof. Dr. Joyce E. Penner, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Heike Riel, IBM Research GmbH, Zürich Research Laboratory, Switzerland (Chair of the SAC, 2013 - 2022)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Roser, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Prof. Dr. Elke Scheer, University of Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan, TU Dortmund, Germany
Oskar Zelder, BASF SE, Germany
