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The Supervisory Board of the DPZ

Our supervisory board members in the foyer of the German Primate Center on 08 November 2021

[Translate to English:] Bild des Aufsichtsrates
from left to right and top to bottom: Dr. Tamara Becker, Prof. Dr. habil. Michael Klein, Dr. Christian Schloegl, Jana Miksch, Prof. Dr. Metin Tolan, Ministerialdirigent Rüdiger Eichel, Ministerialrat Dr. Torsten Geißler, Sabine Brünger-Weilandt is absent from the picture.

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