Prof. Holger Hanselka will be the 11th president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft unanimously elected the current president of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at its meeting in Dresden today. Hanselka succeeds Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, who resigned from his post by mutual agreement today after almost eleven years at the helm of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
The Executive Board is responsible for managing the business activities of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and represents the organization both internally and externally. It elaborates the basic premises of the organization’s science and research policy and draws up business-development and financial plans. The Executive Board also negotiates to obtain institutional funding for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and defines how it is to be distributed among the institutes. A further duty of the Executive Board is to appoint the directors of the institutes.
The Presidential Council participates in Executive Board decision-making processes on questions relating to the Organization’s business strategy, and assists with the implementation of Executive Board resolutions. The Presidential Council consists of the members of the Executive Board and the chairmen of the Fraunhofer Groups:
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research
Executive Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Light & Surfaces
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Production
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Health Research
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Materials and Components – Materials
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Energy Technologies and Climate Protection
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group
Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST
Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Resource Technologies and Bioeconomy
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
Guests: Prof. Dr. Andreas Tünnermann (Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council) and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyerer (Chairman of the Fraunhofer Group for Defense and Security).
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