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Research Council

The Research Council supports and advises the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee in the strategic development of joint thematic fields in research, promotion of early-career researchers and scientific infrastructure and makes recommendations for granting funds from the Research Campus of Central Hessen. The Research Council is comprised of the Vice-Presidents responsible for research and, as scientific members, four scientists from each of the participating universities, and, in an advisory capacity, a representative of the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts.
THE HESSEN STATE MINISTRY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND THE ARTS
Dr. Christine Burtscheidt

 

Institution
Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts

 

Functions

  • Head of the Science Policy and Strategy Processes Department of the Max Planck Society since 2016
  • Head of Communications at the Leibniz Association 2015-2016
  • Office Manager of the President of Goethe University Frankfurt/Main 2010-2015
  • Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung 1999-2010
 
Research Interests
  • Strategic communication
  • Business strategy
  • Fundamental university policy issues
JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN
Prof. Dr. Katja Fiehler

Photo: Anna Völske

 

Institution
Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

Functions

  • Professor of General Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science JLU
  • Speaker of the International Research Training Group (IRTG) "The Brain in Action" (DFG-1901)
  • Member of the managing committee of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC/Transregio 135 “Cardinal Mechanisms of Perception: Prediction, Valuation, Categorization”
  • Member of the Board of Directors at the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION)
  • Member of the Doctoral Council of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform at FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Research Board at FCMH since 2017
Prof. Dr. Wencke Gwozdz

Foto: Katrina Friese.

 

Institution
Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

Functions

  • Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies
  • Member of the Steering Committee at FCMH since 2024
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2024
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Janek

Photo: Georg Kronenberg

 

Institution
Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

Functions

  • Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry at JLU
  • Director of the Centre for Materials Research (ZfM/LaMa)
  • Vice-Dean of Faculty 08 – Biology and Chemistry
  • Research Unit Chair of BELLA Laboratory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Member of the Doctoral Committee of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform at FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017

Research Interests

  • Interaction of perception and action
  • Attention processes during actions
  • Cortical mechanisms of action planning
Research Interests Gwozdz

Research Interests

  • Consumer research
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Behavioural economics
  • Health behaviour
  • Social marketing & behaviour change

Research Interests

  • Electrochemistry of solids, Solid State Ionics
  • Physical chemistry of solids
  • Kinetics and reactions of solids
  • Materials for electrochemical energy technologies
  • Materials analysis (in situ, operando)
  • Interface chemistry
  • Plasma chemistry
  • High-temperature chemistry
Prof. Dr. Katja Sträßer

Photo: Anja Drescher

 

Institution
Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

Functions

  • Professor of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry at JLU
  • Managing Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry
  • Member of the Steering Commitee of SPP 1935 "Deciphering the mRNP code"
  • Leadership of a Project which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2019
Prof. Dr. Monika Wingender

Photo: M. Szych / JLU Slavistik

 

Institution
Justus Liebig University Giessen

 

 Functions

  • Professor of Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Language, Literature, Culture
  • Founding and Managing Director of the Giessen Centre for Eastern European Studies (GiZo) since 2006
  • Member of the Board of the Herder Institute Marburg since 2008
  • Head of the German Association of Slavists since 2011
  • Coordinator of the university partnership between Giessen and Kazan since 2016
  • Speaker with P. Haslinger (Herder Institute) of the LOEWE Focus Group Conflict Regions in Eastern Europe since 2017
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Gene Expression
  • Regulation of the Gene Expression, in particular under stress conditions and in diseases
  • mRNA-Protein-Complexes (mRNPs)
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language policy in Eastern Europe
  • Language situations in the Slavic World
  • Identity Building in Slavic-Turkic Speech Communities
  • Typology of Slavic standard languages, concepts and methods of standard language research
  • Functional-semantic language description (temporality, fields of person and quantity)
PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITÄT MARBURG
Prof. Dr. Gert Bange

Photo: Henrik Isenberg

 

Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Functions

  • Vice-President for research
  • Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry
  • Member of the Steering Committee at FCMH since 2022
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2022
  • Council Chair of the Steering Committee and Research Council at FCMH in 2025
  • Council Chair of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform at FCMH in 2025
Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Photo: Tareq Sydiq

 

Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Functions

  • Managing Director of the Center for Conflict Studies since 2012
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Conflict Studies since 2009
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Political Science since 2011
  • Co-Spokesperson of the Marburg Center for Digital Culture and Infastructure (MCDCI) since 2018
  • Vice Chairwoman of the German Foundation of Peace Research since 2016
  • Member of the Foundation Board of the German Foundation of Peace Research 2011-2016
  • Research Advisory Board (Steering Committee) at UMR since 2020
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2020

 

Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze

Photo: K. Bonacker

 

Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Functions

  • Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at UMR
  • Co-Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC)
  • Deputy Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre CRC/TRR 138: “Dynamics of Security”
  • Member of the Steering Committee at UMR
  • Chair of the Academic Board of the Geschwister-Boehringer-Ingelheim-Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften (Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for the Humanities)
  • Member of the Central Selection Committee at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
  • Vice President Commission for the History of International Relations (CHIR)
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Bacterial stress and environmental adaptation

  • Interactions of microorganisms with plants/animals

Forschungsschwerpunkte Buckley-Zistel

Research Interests

  • Transitional Justice
  • Dealing with the Past and Peacebuilding
  • Civil wars
  • Development assistance
  • Gender, post-positivist theories
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • German and European Contemporary History (20th century)
  • History of International Relations
  • Historical Security Research
  • History of Elites and the Nobility
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hertl

Photo: Dr. Jochen Heinis

Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Functions

  • Professor of Dermatology and Venerology at the Faculty of Medicine at UMR
  • Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences since 2010
  • Member of the Review Board for Life Sciences-Dermatology of the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2007
  • Speaker of the DFG Research Unit FOR 2497 (PEGASUS) since 2017
  • President of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) since 2021
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz

 

Institution
Philipps-Universität Marburg

 

Functions

  • Professor of Experimental Physics at the UMR Department of Physics
  • Director of the Scientific Center for Materials Science (WZMW) at the UMR
  • Spokesperson of the Research Training Group GRK 1782 "Functionalization of Semiconductors
  • Deputy spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1083 "Structure and Dynamics of Interfaces"
  • Member of the Doctoral Center for Engineering Sciences of the FCMH since 2018
  • Full member of the Doctoral Committee of the PZI since 2018
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2020
  • Member of the Research Council (Steering Committee) at UMR since 2020
Forschungsschwerpunkte Hertl

Research Interests

  • Inflammatory skin diseases
  • Autoimmune skin diseases
  • Allergic diseases
  • Targeted treatment of inflammatory skin diseases
  • Immunotherapy of malignant melanoma
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Quantitative structural research on innovative functional materials by electron-microscope methods
  • Separation of functional materials with gas phase process technology
  • Correlation of (nano)structure with growth conditions and propertiers
TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE MITTELHESSEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Frey

Photo: THM

 

Institution

Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen - University of Applied Sciences

 

Functions

  • Vice-President for Research
  • Professor of Sensor Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
  • Member of the Steering Committee at FCMH since 2020
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2020
  • Chair and Advisory Member of the Doctoral Committee of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform of FCMH since 2021
  • Council Chair of the Steering Committee and Research Council at FCMH in 2024
  • Council Chair of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform at FCMH in 2024
Prof. Dr. Boris Keil

Photo: Privat

 

Institution
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
University of Applied Sciences
 

 

Functions

  • Professor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Faculty of Life Science Engineering at THM
  • Member of the Doctoral Committee of the Cooperative Doctoral Platform at FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences since 2019
  • Chairman of the Doctoral Commitee of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences since 2024
  • Member of the of the Doctoral Commitee of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences since 2020
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Klös

Photo: Ulrich Thiele

 

Institution
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen -
University of Applied Sciences

 

Functions

  • Professor for the field “Digital Systems”, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, THM
  • Head of the “Nanoelectronics / Device Modeling” working group at the Competence Center for Nanotechnology and Photonics
  • Member of the Research Council of the FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Doctoral Center for Engineering Sciences since 2018
Research Interests Frey

Research Interests

  • Fluorescence analysis by means of correlation detectors for the quantitative determination of biological analytes
  • Usability of nanostructures as reflexion absorbent layers 
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Modeling of novel transistor structures by analytical, multidimensional solution of basic physical equations
  • Simulation and modeling of organic and nanoelectronic semiconductor devices
  • Development and implementation of structure-related compact models in network simulators as a bridge between system behavior and device physics
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stefan Kolling

Photo: Privat

 

Institution
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen -
University of Applied Sciences

 

Functions

  • Professor of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Technology at THM
  • Executive director of the Institute of Mechanics and Materials (IMM)
  • Deputy spokesperson of the Competency Centre Automotive, Mobility and Materials at THM
  • Member of the Research Council at FCMH since 2017
  • Member of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences since 2018
  • Deputy Member of the Doctoral Commitee of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences from 2018 until 2020
  • Full Member and chairman of the Doctoral Committee of the Graduate Centre for Engineering Sciences since 2020
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Penirschke

 

Institution
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen -
University of Applied Sciences

 

Functions

  • Professor of High and Very High Frequency Technology, Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Friedberg since 2015
  • Head of the “High-frequency measurement technology and RF sensors” working group at the Competence Center for Lasers, Optics, Optical Technologies and Systems
  • Member of the Doctoral Center for Engineering Sciences at FCMH since 2023
  • Member of the Research Council of the Research Campus of Central Hessen since 2023
  • Deputy member of the Presidential Committee for Research at THM since 2023
  • Deputy member of the Presidential Committee for Young Scientists at THM since 2023
  • Board member of the Maxwell in Motion association since 2023
  • Member of the LOTuS competence center since 2022
  • Cooperative member of the NanoP competence center since 2022
  • Member of the VDE ITG Te
Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Computational methods in materials research
  • Material characterization and modelling of polymer materials, paper and glass
Research Interests

Research interests

  • Sensors for particle accelerator systems
  • High-frequency measurement technology
  • THz measurement technology
  • THz system technology
  • EM sensors for physical quantities