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General Assembly elects molecular biologist Axel A. Brakhage and engineering scientist Hans Hasse to the聽快三砍龙 Executive Committee for another four years

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The General Assembly of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (快三砍龙, German Research Foundation) has re-elected Vice Presidents Professor Dr. Axel A. Brakhage and Professor Dr.-Ing. Hans Hasse聽for a second term of office. At the 快三砍龙 annual meeting in Potsdam on Wednesday, 3 July 2024, they were appointed to the governing body of Germany鈥檚 largest research funding organisation and central self-governing organisation for science and the humanities for another four years.

Axel A. Brakhage holds the Chair of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and is Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI). His research focuses on the infection biology of human-pathogenic fungi, microbial communication and the search for microbial agents, as well as the development of antibiotics. Brakhage was spokesperson for a graduate school funded under the Excellence Initiative and from 2019 to 2023 founding spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence 鈥淏alance of the Microverse鈥�, of which he has been a member ever since. He is currently the spokesperson for the CRC/Transregio 鈥淧athogenic Fungi and their Human Host: Networks of Interaction鈥� (FungiNet).听

During his first term as 快三砍龙 Vice President, Brakhage chaired the 快三砍龙 Senate Commission on Genetic Research and was involved in the Joint Committee of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC) in Beijing, an institution that is jointly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the 快三砍龙. He was also a member of the 快三砍龙 Sustainability Commission, which is concerned with anchoring sustainability considerations in the 快三砍龙鈥檚 funding activities.

Hans Hasse heads the Chair of Thermodynamics at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). He was a member of the 快三砍龙 Senate from 2016 to 2020 and a member of the 鈥淧rocess Engineering, Technical Chemistry鈥� review board from 2008 to 2016, of which he was spokesperson from 2012 to 2016. He has also acted as spokesperson for numerous 快三砍龙-funded collaborative projects, including three Collaborative Research Centres. Most recently, up until 2023, he was spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Centre 鈥淢icroscale Morphology of Component Surfaces (MICOS)鈥�.听

During his first term as 快三砍龙 Vice President, Hasse was particularly active in promoting universities of applied sciences (UAS) and was involved in the implementation of funding measures in this area such as the Research Impulses funding programme. Hasse was also involved in the 快三砍龙 Sustainability Commission and the Senate Ad Hoc Working Group on the Digital Turn.

In addition to 快三砍龙 President Professor Dr. Katja Becker and the re-elected Vice Presidents Brakhage and Hasse, the 快三砍龙 Executive Committee includes the lawyer Professor Dr. Marietta Auer, the art historian Professor Dr. Johannes Grave, the physicist Professor Dr. Karin Jacobs, the sociologist Professor Dr. Matthias Koenig, the computer scientist Professor Dr. Kerstin Schill, the chemist Professor Dr. Peter H. Seeberger and the medical scientist Professor Dr. Britta Siegmund. The President of Stifterverband is a member of the Executive Committee in an advisory capacity by virtue of their office. 快三砍龙 Secretary General Dr. Heide Ahrens likewise participates in the meetings of the Executive Committee in an advisory capacity.

The Vice Presidents are elected by the General Assembly for a maximum of two terms of office of four years each. They stand in for the President if she is unable to fulfil her duties. In addition, they are guest attendees at the meetings of the Senate and of the Joint Committee, the 快三砍龙鈥檚 highest scientific body and central decision-making body.听

Further information

For further information on 快三砍龙 Executive Committee members, see:聽

• www.dfg.de/en/dfg-profile/statutory-bodies/executive-committee(interner Link)

All press releases on the 2024 annual meeting are also to be found in a digital press kit 补迟听www.dfg.de/service/presse/jahresversammlung-2024(interner Link), which is supplemented on an ongoing basis.