The Supervisory Board of the DPZ
Our supervisory board members in the foyer of the German Primate Center on 08 November 2021
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Members of the Supervisory Board
The shareholders of the DPZ are the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Lower Saxony. The Supervisory Board is elected by the shareholders and consists of nine members. The chairperson is provided by the State of Lower Saxony.
Ministerialdirigent Rüdiger Eichel (chairman)
Lower Saxony Ministery for Science and Culture, Hannover
Ministerialrat Dr. Torsten Geißler (vice chairman)
The Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Berlin
Dr. Michael Marahrens
Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Hannover
Dr. Tamara Becker
Animal Husbandry, German Primate Center
Dr. Christian Schloegl
Department for Cognitive Ethology, German Primate Center
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Klein
German Alliance for Ocean Research, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan
President of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Kristine Krug MA DPhil FRSB (chairwoman of the DPZ Scientific Advisory Board - Guest)
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Misof (vice chairman of the DPZ Scientific Advisory Board - Guest)
Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, Bonn