Preliminary results of the Review Board election

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has published the preliminary results of the Review Board elections. The University and the University Medical Center Freiburg will be represented in eleven Review Boards. 

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According to the DFG, there were 632 slots to be filled in a total of 49 Review Boards with more than 53,000 researchers voting. Ten scholars from the University of Freiburg and six from the University Medical Center Freiburg have been elected for the period 2020 to 2023:

Prof. Dr. Oliver Ambacher, Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering - Review Board Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Prof. Dr. Volker Auwärter and Prof. Dr. Sabine Lutz-Bonengel, Institute of Forensic Medicine; Prof. Dr. Bodo Grimbacher, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency; Prof. Dr. Steffen Ulrich Eisenhardt,  Center of Surgery (University Medical Center) – Review Board Medicine

Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos, Institute of Physiology; Prof. Dr. Katharina Domschke, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy – Review Board Neurosciences

Prof. Dr. Carsten Dormann, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences – Review Board Plant Sciences

Prof. Dr. Andreas Gelz, Department of Romance Studies – Review Board Literary Studies

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel, Department of Psychology – Review Board Psychology

Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytic Chemistry – Review Board Molecular Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Christian Mair, Department of English – Review Board Linguistics

Private lecturer Dr. Marta Rizzi, Department of Internal Medicine – Review Board Microbiology, Virology and Immunology

Prof. Dr. Gerald Urban and Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wallrabe, Department of Microsystems Engineering – Review Board Systems Engineering

Prof. Dr. Markus Weiler, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences – Review Board Water Research

DFG press release (in German)

Preliminary election results (pdf) (in German)

Interview with Prof. Dr. Daniel Jacob on the significance of the Review Board election