Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees consults and supports the institute’s management and the bodies of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The 34^rd Board of Trustees meeting occurred on March 22^th, 2024. 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

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 SE, Ditzingen

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

M. JARONI, DR.
Chief Transformation Officer, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg

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
General Representative 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, BMW Group, Munich

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

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

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