The Scientific Board prepares recommendations on scientific direction and on ensuring a high degree of scientific productivity.  The Scientific Board consists of ten researchers who are internationally recognized at the highest level and an additional (non-voting) member with outstanding management experience. The members were appointed by the Board of Trustees for a term of 6 years.

Kurt Mehlhorn
Chair
Director Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

Arnold Schmidt
Vice-Chair
Former President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Frank Allgöwer
Professor, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Angelika Amon
Professor, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Peter Fratzl
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Tony F. Heinz
Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA

Hannah Monyer
Professor, Department of Clinical Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Martin Nowak
Professor, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Secretary General, Human Frontiers Science Program, Strasbourg, France

Anton Zeilinger
Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna and IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Non-voting Member:
Claus J. Raidl
CEO Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna

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