Directors

Prof Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Director Emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biology Tübingen
Max-Planck-Ring 5, 72076 Tübingen.
Studies of Biology, Physics and Biochemistry in Frankfurt and Tübingen. PhD in 1973, Professor 1985. Embryology and Genetics. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1995.

cnv@tuebingen.mpg.de

 

Dr Barbara Bludau
Lawyer, former Secretary General of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, retired State Councillor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Studied law at the Universities of Göttingen, Munich, Cologne and Bonn

sciencekontor@outlook.de
 

 

 

Prof Dr Maria Leptin
President of the European Research Council (ERC)
Department of Developmental Genetics, University of Cologne, Institute of Genetics
Studied mathematics and biology in Bonn and Heidelberg. Dr rer. nat. 1979, Prof. 1994, Cell and Developmental Biology. 2 sons.

mleptin@uni-koeln.de

 

 

Dr. Gerlind Wallon
Deputy Director EMBO
EMBO Young Investigator Programme
Meyerhofstraße 1, 69112 Heidelberg
Studies of Chemical Engineering in Hamburg and Biochemistry at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA. PhD 1996. 2 children.

wallon@embo.org