External Advisory Board for the Selection of Grantees
The External Advisory Board consists of seven internationally distinguished external researchers and science managers, all highly renowned in their respective fields. They are responsible for the final selection of the Grantees.
Immacolata Amodeo is the Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre of the City of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Managing Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre Foundation as well as Honorary Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media at the University of Mainz. After studying in Perugia and Frankfurt am Main, she completed her doctorate in Siegen in 1994 and habilitated in Bayreuth in 2001. From 2003 “Professor of Literature” at the international Jacobs University Bremen; 2013-2018 Secretary General of the German-Italian Center of European Excellence “Villa Vigoni” on Lake Como.
Dr Christian Bode
Christian Bode is the former Secretary General of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He currently serves as the chairman of the DAAD Alumni & Friends. For his longstanding commitment to internationalisation he has received several honorary doctorates, awards and medals, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Prof Richard Cogdell FRS
Richard Cogdell FRS holds the Hooker Chair of Botany at the University of Glasgow and was the Deputy Head of College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow for nearly a decade. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, has received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and is a frequent internationally sought-after advisory board member and reviewer, e.g. for the German Excellence Strategy.
Prof Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter is the chair of the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Biocenter) at the University of Würzburg. He earned his doctorate in zoology at the University of Göttingen and completed his habilitation in ecology. From 2006 to 2010, he was Professor for Animal Population Ecology at the University of Bayreuth before being appointed to Würzburg in 2010. His research focuses on the effects of land use, climate change, and habitat alteration on biodiversity and ecosystem services, with a particular emphasis on pollinators and insect ecology. His work combines experimental field research with large-scale landscape analyses in both European and tropical regions. As coordinator of international projects such as the EU-funded Safeguard, he is considered one of the leading experts in this field.
Prof Oliver Junge
Oliver Junge is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After studying mathematics and computer science at the universities of Darmstadt, Bordeaux, Hamburg, and Bayreuth, Oliver Junge received his doctorate in Paderborn in 1999. His research took him to the Georgia Institute of Technology (2000/2001) and the California Institute of Technology (2004) in the USA. After serving as a junior professor (2003) in Paderborn, he was appointed to a professorship in Applied Mathematics at TUM in 2005. Since an offer to the Chair of Systems Theory at the University of Stuttgart (2009), he is heading the Associate Professorship for Numerics of Complex Systems at TUM.
Prof Laura Rischbieter
Laura Rischbieter is Professor of the History of Capitalism at the University of Basel. She teaches and writes about modern economic history in a global context, and won several awards for her work on the history of financial crisis after 1945. Laura Rischbieter held fellowships at Birkbeck College London, University of California (Berkeley and Irvine), the GHI Washington DC, and at the Boston University. Among other positions she is a member of the Historical Commission of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
Prof Natalie Stingelin
Natalie Stingelin FRSC is full Professor of Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. She held prior positions at Imperial College London; the University of Cambridge; Queen Mary University of London; the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; and ETH Zurich. She holds a Chaire Internationale Associée by the Excellence Initiative of the Université de Bordeaux since 2016 and is a former Senior FRIAS Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.