The Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board usually conducts an additional audit between two regular evaluations by the Leibniz Association to ensure the quality of FIZ Karlsruhe's products, services, and research activities.

The members are appointed by the Supervisory Board upon nomination by the Management. They reflect the full range of FIZ Karlsruhe's fields of activity.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board of FIZ Karlsruhe

11th Term of Office

(2026–2030)

Please note: The election of the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board will take place at a later date. Until then, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Director of the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), TU Dresden, will continue to serve as Interim Chair. 

• MMag. Dr. Ulrich Bohrn, MBA
  Head of Information Services & Senior IP Counsel, LANXESS Deutschland GmbH
• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Cress
  Professor, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Director, Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM)
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Eberl
  Deputy Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg; Chair of Micro- and Materials Mechanics, University of Freiburg
• Prof. Dr. Anne Frühbis-Krüger
  Professor of Mathematics, University of Oldenburg
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Kraft
  Vice President for Research, Academic Affairs and Teaching, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Prof. Dr. Paulina Jo Pesch
  Junior Professor, Institute for Law and Technology (IRuT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
• Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp
  Professor of German Studies – Computational Philology and Medieval Studies, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler
  Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Berlin; Technical University of Berlin; Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin
• Dr. Michael Unger, M.A.
  Director of Archives and Permanent Deputy to the Director General, General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives
• Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour
  Managing Director, GWDG – Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (Society for Scientific Data Processing, Göttingen)