Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees consults and supports the institute’s management and the bodies of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The 33^rd Board of Trustees meeting occurred on March 24^th, 2023. The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:


R. ACHATZ, DR.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Coach Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Resilience, Munich

A. BECK, DR.
Head of Division Bund-Länder Research Institutions, Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism, Dresden

C. DALLE DONNE, DR.
Head of Materials, Processes and Tests (ESCM), Airbus Operations GmbH, Bremen

K. DELAEY
Director, Newson NV, Dendermonde, Belgium

T. FEHN, Dr.
Chief Sales Officer TRUMPF Lasertechnology, TRUMPF Lasertechnik AG, Ditzingen

T. FRAUENPREIß
Managing Director, Newport Spectra-Physics GmbH & Ophir Spiricon Europe GmbH, Darmstadt

B. FRIEDL, DR.
Head of Operations & BU Services, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Oberkochen

A. HANDSCHUH, DR.
State Secretary, Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism, Dresden

T. HOSENFELDT, PROF. DR.
Senior Vice President Research and Innovation, Central Technology, Schaeffler AG, Herzogenaurach

M. JARONI, DR.
Executive Vice President Steel, thyssenkrupp AG, Essen

U. KRAUSE, DR.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Project Management Agency Karlsruhe, Production and Manufacturing Technologies, Head of Branch Office Dresden

M. KURSAWE, DR.
Director Performance Materials | Operations – Head of EHS & Compliance, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt

M. NOCK, DR.
former Senior Vice President Innovation Management, EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems, Krailling

P. G. NOTHNAGEL, MinR
Mikromat GmbH, Dresden

C. RÜTTIMANN, DR.
CTO Bystronic Laser AG, Niederönz, Switzerland

O. SCHAUERTE, DR. 
Group Innovation Materials, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg

R. SCHELL
Head of Innovation Management, BMW Motorrad, Munich

I. STOLL, DR.
Director Materials (TEW), MTU Aero Engines AG, Munich

R. TETZLAFF, PROF. DR. 
Chief Officer Technology Transfer and Internationalisation, Technische Universität Dresden

A. TIMM, DR.
Life Science (CR/ATC4), Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart

C. ULLMANN, DR.
CEO Laserline GmbH, Mülheim-Kärlich