Activities and Memberships
since 2021
Member of the acatech Horizons Project Group "Industrial Biotechnology
since 2020
Member of the "Corona Expert Council of the State of Lower Saxony" under the leadership of the Ministry of Economics, appointed by Deputy MP Dr. Bernd Althusmann
since 2020
Member of the Lower Saxony Life Science Startup Board
since 2019
Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of BIOCOM AG, Berlin, Brussels, Zurich
since 2017
Chairwoman of the Board and member of the association BioDigit - Triggering Sustainable Bioeconomy e.V., (BioDigit), Hannover, Germany
since 2017
Member of the University Council of Christian Albrechts University CAU zu Kiel
since 2017
Member of the umbrella organization of the Catholic laity, the so-called Central Committee of German Catholics, ZdK; among other things, member of the Commission on Bioethics at (1st joint commission of ZdK and German Bishops' Conference) as well as the working group "Political and Ethical Questions of Principle" of the ZdK
since 2016
Member of the BMBF coordination group Biotech 2020+ to steer the biotech and bioeconomy orientation of BMBF, BMEL and BMWi
2009
Founding member of the National Bioeconomy Research and Technology Council of the Federal Government, established in 2009, thereby member of the WG "Industrial Biotechnology";
2002-2012
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the inter-faculty "Life Science Center" of the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, until its implementation in a cross-university "Bioeconomy" mission statement
2002-2010
Member of the Supervisory Board of the UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft e.V., Leipzig
2000-2008
Member of the Advisory Board "Biological and Chemical Safety of Transgenic Organisms" of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Munich
since 1990
Member of VAAM, Association for General and Applied Microbiology e.V.