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 in Hannover
Ministerialrat Dr. Torsten Geißler (vice chairman)
The Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Berlin
Jana Miksch
Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance, 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
Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Klein
German Alliance for Ocean Research
Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan
President of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Kristine Krug MA DPhil FRSB (Guest)
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg