Kleiner becomes new President

In his inaugural speech, Kleiner was especially focused on his sense of community as well as network research. Among other things, he mentioned the establishment of new Leibniz institutes within the universities as well as the common development of the national and international visibility as aims for his term of office. Moreover, he emphasized that in future the connecting identity of the Leibniz institutes should primarily be based on a common research mode as well as on scientific attentiveness within the network and for the society.

Matthias Kleinert studied mechanical engineering at the University of Dortmund from 1976 until 1982. At the university, he later obtained a PhD and his habilitation in the field of Forming Technology. From 1994 to 1998, he established the Chair for Design and Manufacturing at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus and in 1997, he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the “DFG” (German Research Foundation). In 1998, he obtained full professorship for the Chair of Forming Technology at the Technical University of Dortmund. Matthias Kleiner was president of the German Research Foundation from 2007 until 2012.