Klaudia Kunze comes from Corporate Communications at Siemens AG in Munich where she has been since December 2007, most recently as official spokesperson for Innovation and Technology. She was responsible for communications of the Management Board for Technology as well as those of Corporate Research.

Kunze had formed her own agency and handled all of the communications for the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, a.k.a. acatech, from 2001 to 2007. During her previous four-year period in Asia she was a freelance PR consultant and overseas correspondent for various media in the field of engineering and innovation. Prior to this, she had already worked in various positions at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen. She completed her university studies in mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University with an MBA at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok.

In addition to encompassing existing internal and external communications, events and trade shows, Communications will address the further development and extension of the Fraunhofer brand as well as communications planning and control, and international and political communications. The newly formed division will be strengthened by additional staff and its organization further enhanced. Beate Koch remains Press Spokesperson and department head within the new division.

"We are very pleased to have found in Klaudia Kunze an experienced communicator for the sciences and the enterprise who can build up the communications division," remarked Professor Reimund Neugebauer, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. "This will help us realize our goal of strengthening and promoting not just political dialogue on issues of innovation, but social dialogue as well. That is why we are focusing and broadening our expertise in communications," emphasized Neugebauer.