Dr. Stephanie Bauer
Vice-Chair
Dr. Stephanie Bauer took up office as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich within the Helmholtz Association in January 2025. She is responsible for the Management Division for Infrastructure.
Dr. Bauer studied mineralogy at the Technical University of Munich. She then went on to complete a doctoral degree at the University of Cologne and Forschungszentrum Jülich. During this time, she also studied business studies and economics at the distance-learning university FernUniversität Hagen.
Her first position was with Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg. In 1999, she moved to the then German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), where she worked in several areas including the directorates for general economic policy and energy policy and for the Permanent Representative of Germany to the OECD in Paris.
In January 2003, Dr. Bauer transferred to the German Federal Chancellery, starting as an advisor in the department for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), craft, competition policy, and business law. In May 2005, she assumed the position of deputy head of the cabinet and parliamentary department. In January 2010, she took over as manager of the SME circle of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. In July 2012, she became General Manager of the German Federal Association of Liberal Professions (BFB).
In November 2018, Dr. Bauer took over as head of Project Management Jülich, which is the largest organizational unit of Forschungszentrum Jülich.