Board of Trustees

The joint Board of Trustees of the MPI for Biological Intelligence and the MPI of Biochemistry is an important instrument for communicating with the public. Its members are social figures from politics, business, science, culture and the media. They advise and support the institutes on social and science policy issues.

The members of the Board of Trustees are nominated by the President of the Max Planck Society and appointed for a term of six years. At regular meetings, the Trustees* receive up-to-date information on the development of the Institute and the Max Planck Society. The Board of Trustees supports the Institute on social, scientific and political issues.

Members

• Luitpold Prinz von Bayern
  Entrepreneur, König Ludwig International GmbH & Co. KG
• Prof. Dr. Peter B. Becker
  CEO, LMU Biomedical Center, Planegg-Martinsried
• Prof. Dr. Francesca Biagini
  Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
• Prof. Dr. Alena Buyx
  Director, Institute of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies, Technical University of Munich
• Prof. Dr. Marianne Dieterich
  Director, LMU Neurological Clinic, Clinic Großhadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
• Stefan Frey
  Head of Landratsamt Starnberg
• Christoph Göbel
  Head of Landratsamt Landkreis Munich
• Prof. Dr. Michael John Gorman
  Founding Director, BIOTOPIA – Naturkundemuseum Bayern e.V..
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann
  President, Technical University of Munich, Freising
• Jonas Kaufmann
  Kammersänger, Munich
• Hermann Nafziger
  1. Mayor of the Municipality of Planegg, Planegg
• Werner Reuß
  Head of Programs Insight & Education, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich
• Prof. Dr. Monika Schnitzer
  Director Comparative Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• Andreas Sentker
  Head of purview „Insight“, DIE ZEIT
• Dr. Marlene Weiß
  Head of purview „Insight“, Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, Munich
• MDirig Dr. Manfred Wolter
  Head of Department Innovation, Science, Technology, Digitalization, Bavarian State Ministry of Economics, Munich
• Dr. Peter Hanns Zobel
  CEO, Innovation and Start-up Centre for Biotechnology IZB (Fördergesellschaft), Planegg-Martinsried