Directorate
According to the Hereon statutes, the supervisory board monitors that management activities are appropriate, economically efficient and in conformity with legal norms. Its responsibilities and powers also include:
- making decisions concerning the research center’s strategy, research policies and financial affairs,
- deciding on the principles for evaluating the success of scientific and technical work,
- the authority to issue directives to management and to the scientific technical council in important research policy and financial matters,
- granting the consent necessary for a number of the research center’s legal transactions.
Members of the supervisory board
- Ministerialdirigent Dr. Ralf Gebel (Chairman) Ministry for Education and Research
- Andreas Malzahn (Deputy Chairman) Ministry for Science, Social Affairs, Health, Science and Equal Opportunities, Kiel
- Deputy Director General Heike Imhoff Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn
- Ministerialrätin Dr. Zage Kaculevski Ministry for Education and Research
- Leitender Regierungsdirektor Klaus von Lepel Ministry of Science, Research, Equal Opportunities and Sections Hamburg
- Steffen Weber Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the Brandenburg, Potsdam
- Dr. Marcus Beiner Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Hanover
- Dr. Joachim Krohn Stellvertretender Vorsitzender, Freunde und Förderer von GKSS, Hereon und Hereon
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Berger Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt
- O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Seidler TU Vienna
- Dr. Birgit Hünicke Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
- Dr. Nico Scharnagl Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
- Dr. Carsten Lemmen Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon