Advisory Board

To guarantee excellent research and management structures, the Graduate School Materials Science in Mainz (MAINZ) has installed an external advisory board, consisting of members from academia and industry. The advisory board supports MAINZ in general issues and, in particular, in its regular evaluation procedures. The board meets every other year to evaluate the graduate school.

The members of the MAINZ Advisory Board are:

Research Area Name Institution Function
Functional Polymers Prof. Dr. Harm-Anton Klok EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Head of Polymers Laboratory at EPFL
Industrial Relations Dr. Torsten Mau Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany Head of HP Supply and Global Quality
Hybrid Materials Prof. Dr. Katharina Al-Shamery University of Oldenburg, Germany Laboratory Head and Vice President for Research
Model Systems and Correlated Matter Prof. Dr. emer. Gernot Güntherodt RWTH Aachen University, Germany Former Director of the II. Department of Physics
Bio-Related Materials Prof. Dr. Markus Deserno Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Associate Department Head