Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees supervises the IPB Management. It audits the management and approves the annual financial statements. In addition, it approves the activities of the IPB Management in the previous financial year.

The Board of Trustees includes: Representatives of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Federal Government, the Rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, a representative of scientific life and the chair as well as the deputy chair of the Scientific Advisory Board.

The current members of the Board of Trustees are:

• Representative of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and Board of Trustees Chairperson
  Dr. Michael Lehmann
  Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  
  
• Representative of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  Ulrike Ehlers
  Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  
  
• Representative of the German Federal Government and Board of Trustees Deputy Chairperson
  Dr. Klaus-Peter Michel
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  
  
• Rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, represented by
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Binder
  University Halle, Institute of Chemistry
  
  
• Research community representative
  Prof. Dr. Sabine Flitsch
  University of Manchester, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) & School of Chemistry
  
  
• Research community representative
  Prof. Dr. Norbert Sewald
  University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Chemistry
  
  
• Permanent Guest
  Chairperson of the IPB Scientific Advisory Board
  Prof. Dr. Claus Schwechheimer
  Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan
  
  
• Permanent Guest
  Vice-Chairperson of the IPB Scientific Advisory Board
  Prof. Dr. Jörg Pietruszka
  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich