Assembly of Members
Board of Trustees
Dr. Bernd Ebersold // Chair
Scientific Advisory Council
Prof. Dr. Werner Mäntele // Chair
Executive Committee
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp // Chairman and Scientific Director
Frank Sondermann // Administrative Director
Deputy Directors
Prof. Dr. Ute Neugebauer // Deputy Scientific Director
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek // Deputy Scientific Director
Verwaltung, Betriebstechnik
Frank Sondermann // Head
Consultants to the Executive Committee
Susanne Hellwage // Personal Consultant to the Scientific Director
Dr. Karina Weber // Consultant to the Executive Committee
Employee Representation
Claudia Aichele // Employee Representation
Sarah Meinhardt // Councillor for Equality
Neus Allande Calvet // Head of PhD Council
Staff Units
Dr. Ivonne Bieber // Scientific Coordination
Gabriele Hamm // Internationalization
Daniel Siegesmund // Public Relations and Research Marketing
Members of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Bernd Ebersold // Vorsitzender
Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Society, Erfurt
Klaus Berka
Jena
Dr. Ludwin Monz
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Jena
Prof. Dr. Georg Pohnert
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena
Dr. Petra Wolff
Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
Members of the Scientific Advisory Council
Prof. Dr. Werner Mäntele // Sprecher
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Jörg Bewersdorf
Yale University, Yale, USA
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz
University of Muenster, Muenster (as of 01.07.2021)
Prof. Dr. Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
University of Adelaide, Australien (as of 01.07.2021)
Eugen Ermantraut
BLINK AG, Jena
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
German Aerospace Center, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Monika Ritsch-Marte
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck (as of 01.07.2021)
Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland
Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen
Prof. Dr. Christian Spielmann
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena
Prof. Dr. Frank W. Weichold
Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, USA
Assembly of Members
Membership of Institutions
4H Jena Engineering GmbH, Jena
represented by Michael Boer
CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH, Erfurt
represented by Prof. Dr. Thomas Ortlepp
Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule, Jena
represented by the rector Prof. Dr. Steffen Teichert
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
represented by Dr. Jörg Neumann
j-fiber GmbH, Jena
represented by Ulrich Lossen
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden
represented by Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
represented by Hartmut Spennemann
Sparkasse Jena
represented by Michael Rabich
City of Jena
represented by the mayor Dr. Thomas Nitzsche
Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Science and Digital Society, Erfurt
represented by Jana Podßuweit
Personal Members
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Bartelt
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena
Prof. Dr. Hans Eckhardt Hoenig
Erlangen
Dr. Klaus Fischer
Jena
Elke Harjes-Ecker
Thüringer Staatskanzlei, Erfurt
Bernd Krekel
Commerzbank AG, Gera
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena
Frank Sondermann
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena
Prof. Dr. Herbert Stafast
Jena