New people.
New ideas.
From 14 to 15 July 2022, the new Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg met for the first time in Konstanz.
The new members are Raghavendra Gadagkar (Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), David Gugerli (Professor for the History of Technology, ETH Zurich), Sabine von Heusinger (Professor of Medieval History/ Late Middle Ages, University of Cologne), Michael Matlosz (President of EuroScience), Elke aus dem Moore (Director, Akademie Schloss Solitude), Jane Ohlmeyer (Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin), Ursula Schwarzenbart (Director, Global Diversity Office, Daimler, former member of the University Council, University of Konstanz (03/2009-02/2018)), Vinod Subramaniam (President of the Executive Board, University of Twente) and Ingrid Wünning-Tschol (Senior Vice President Health and Science, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany). Manuela Nocker (Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, University of Essex) represents continuity in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg, as she was already a member from 2017 until 2020.
The task of the Scientific Advisory Board is to support the Zukunftskolleg with its expertise and to set the strategic course for the future development of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Konstanz. The advisory board members’ expertise is highly diverse, and this is what makes it so important: it comes from science and industry, from university politics and from the artistic domain. The advisory board members therefore look at the “fate” of the Zukunftskolleg from different perspectives, some with a different focus.
It was quickly noticeable that the new advisory board members harmonize wonderfully not only as a body, but also as people, which is why it did not take long for them to start giving advice.
In order to be able to give advice, the advisory board members should first familiarize themselves properly with the Zukunftskolleg at their first meeting. The meeting therefore started with a working lunch and a poster session, to which all fellows – Postdoctoral and Research, Associated, Senior, Visiting, ZUKOnnect/Herz Fellows – were invited. Nineteen fellows presented their posters in the corridor of the Zukunftskolleg. This was followed by opening remarks by Katharina Holzinger (Rector of the University of Konstanz) and Manuela Nocker as both an old and new member of the Scientific Advisory Board, followed by a short round of introductions by the members of the board and of the Executive Committee.
After a short break, there was a discussion round with an introduction by Malte Drescher (Vice Rector for Research, Academic Staff Development and Research Infrastructure / member of the Executive Committee of the Zukunftskolleg) and Giovanni Galizia, Director of the Zukunftskolleg. Afterwards, the advisory board members and the fellows discussed in small groups/round tables the future (strategic) direction of the Zukunftskolleg.
The ultimate question was how the Zukunftskolleg can continue to be a role model in the context of national changes in career paths, digital transformation and the Excellence Strategy.
The Scientific Advisory Board and the Executive Committee of the Zukunftskolleg
Zukunftskolleg
Scientific Advisory Board:
2021-2024
Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangaloreå
Raghavendra Gadagkar obtained a BSc (Hons) and an MSc in zoology from Bangalore University and a doctoral degree in molecular biology from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. During the past 25 years, he has established an active school of research in animal behaviour, ecology and evolution.
He has won numerous awards for his contributions to scientific research, including the Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany) in 2015, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biology in 1993 and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Prize in 1999.
He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Secretary, 1995-2000), the Indian National Science Academy (President, 2014-2016), the National Academy of Sciences, India, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
As the founding chair of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Gadagkar has initiated a new experiment that endeavours to engage some of the best practitioners of different disciplines in the human sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, economics, law, literature, poetry, art, music, cinema, etc., and aims to forge meaningful interaction between the natural and human sciences
Prof. David Gugerli
Professor for the History of Technology, ETH Zürich
Following studies in history and literature, he received his doctoral degree in history in 1987. In 1995, he obtained a venia legendi (Habilitation) at the University of Zurich for modern history and in 1997 was appointed assistant professor at ETH Zurich.
He has worked as guest researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris (1988 and 1991), visiting fellow at Stanford University (1992), visiting scientist at El Colegio de México (1989-1993), fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1993/94), fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna (1994) and professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1996). In 2006, he was a guest of the rector at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2008/2009 a senior fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. In 2014/15, he was a senior fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
He is a founding member of the Center History of Knowledge, which is supported by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. He has served as chair of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) and as a member of the ETH Zurich Research Committee. From 2009 to 2016, he led the Strategy Committee at ETH Zurich.
Prof. Sabine von Heusinger
Professor of Medieval History/ Late Middle Ages, University of Cologne, Germany
1996: Doctoral degree (DPhil) at the University of Konstanz, thesis: “Der observante Dominikaner Johannes Mulberg († 1414) und der Basler Beginenstreit”
2006: Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation), University of Mannheim, thesis: “Soziale Gruppen in der Stadt – das Beispiel der Zünfte in Straßburg”
2010: Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg
2011: Chair of Medieval History, University of Cologne
2014: Fellow, International Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata, University of Cologne
2017: John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto/CA
Main research topics: social groups (e.g. guilds; Mendicant orders; Beguines), material culture (e.g. water), urban history (e.g. Strasbourg; Cologne; Basel)
Prof. Michael Matlosz
President of EuroScience
Professor Michael Matlosz holds a BSc in chemical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a doctoral degree in electrochemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He began his professional research career in 1985 in the department of materials science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (Switzerland), prior to appointment in 1993 as university professor of chemical process engineering at the University of Lorraine in Nancy (France).
More recently, Professor Matlosz served from 2014 to 2017 as President and Chief Executive Officer of the French National Research Agency (ANR) in Paris. An elected member of the National Academy of Technologies of France since 2011, Professor Matlosz was also President of Science Europe, the Brussels-based advocacy association for European research performing and research funding organisations. Currently a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at the University of Lorraine, in July 2018 Professor Matlosz began a four-year term of office as President of EuroScience, the European Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
council.science/profile/michael-matlosz
Elke aus dem Moore
Director of Akademie Schloss Solitude
Prior to April 2018, the new director Elke aus dem Moore was head of the art department of the ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. She was responsible for the content of ifa’s international exhibition programme and gave important impetus to international cultural exchange through numerous exhibitions, conferences, funding programmes and workshops. A special example is the artistic platform on art, fashion and urbanity Prêt-à-Partager, initiated by Elke aus dem Moore, which took place in numerous African locations and in Berlin and Stuttgart. Other important projects include the collective exhibition Politics of Sharing – On Collective Wisdom (2016/2017) in cooperation with Adnan Yildiz and the conference Curating Under Pressure (2015), which took place in New Zealand. For documenta 14, she curated – in cooperation with aneducation – the gathering Under the Mango Tree – Sites of Learning, which presented international perspectives on new educational models in art.
Elke aus dem Moore studied literature and art in Osnabrück, Zurich and Bochum and was curator for contemporary art at the Shedhalle Zurich from 1999 to 2002. As director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, she was responsible for the international exhibition programme from 2003 to 2006. She has published numerous exhibition catalogues and articles for various magazines. Furthermore, she is initiator and co-founder of the online magazine Contemporary and (C&) as well as the International Biennial Association – IBA.
Dr. Manuela Nocker
Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, University of Essex
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg (since 2017)
2006: doctoral degree in Organisational Psychology, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, University of Essex, UK (since 2012)
Manuela Nocker is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation and Sustainability, and teaches organisation studies, business ethics and research methodology. She has held two mandates as Undergraduate Programme Director, overseeing all courses in the Management Science and Entrepreneurship Group (2012-July 2019). Manuela Nocker is the representative for the PRME programme on Principles of Responsible Management Education at Essex Business School. She is also the institutional representative and liaison across departments for the UNAI Academic Impact scheme and engages in the UN Global Compact initiative, endorsed at university level to promote sustainability and ethical principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption (www.unglobalcompact.org).
She has been a Senate member at this University and a member of public boards in South Tyrol/Italy at institutions in the areas of education, research and innovation.
She was Vice-President of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (2014-18) and its university council member (2010-14). Manuela Nocker has worked as careers adviser, trainer and management consultant prior to becoming an academic at EBS in 2006 (Southend Campus).
essex.ac.uk/people/nocke67409/manuela-nocker
Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer
Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
Since 2003, she has been the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. She has also served as Chair of the Irish Council since 2015. She was President of the Irish Historical Society from 2003 to 2005, the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity’s first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14) and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015-20).
In 2011, Ohlmeyer was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), the premier all-Ireland learned society for the sciences and humanities.
Professor Ohlmeyer is an expert on the New British and Atlantic Histories and has published extensively on early modern Irish and British history. She is also an active proponent of ‘Digital Humanities’.
She has recently led Trinity’s bid as part of a consortium of partners for the successful award of €1.5million for the project ‘Shape-ID’, ‘Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe’, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Ursula Schwarzenbart
Director, Global Diversity Office, Daimler
In 2005, Ursula Schwarzenbart established Daimler's Global Diversity Office. As Chief Diversity Officer, she is responsible for a wide range of diversity activities worldwide. In addition to this function, Ursula Schwarzenbart has been in charge of organizing group-wide talent management since 2010 and is involved in HR development topics in the Leadership 2020 initiative.
Ursula Schwarzenbart is also a former member of the University Council of the University of Konstanz (03/2009-02/2018)
group.mercedes-benz.com/nachhaltigkeit/grundlagen/beschaeftigte/diversity-inclusion
Prof. Vinod Subramaniam
President of the Executive Board, University of Twente
Member of the Excellence Strategy Council of the University of Konstanz
Vinod Subramaniam (1967) became UT’s President of the Executive Board on 1 September 2021. He was previously Rector Magnificus of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for a period of six years. Vinod has a long-lasting relationship with the University of Twente: until 2013, he was Professor of Nanobiophysics. From 2012 to 2013, he was also scientific director of UT’s MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, today known as TechMed Centre. In his scientific work, he has focused on finding causes for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson. For this, he examined the behaviour and ‘misfolding’ of proteins in the brain that may be associated with these diseases.
In September 2012, he was appointed director at the AMOLF institute (physics of functional complex matter) in Amsterdam, and he was Extraordinary Professor of Nanoscale Imaging at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Vinod was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He was a guest lecturer and senior fellow at the Zukunftskolleg, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the University of Konstanz in Germany. He is an elected member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen).
utwente.nl/en/eb/members/#profdr-vinod-subramaniam-president-executive-board
Dr Ingrid Wünning-Tschol
Senior Vice President Health and Science, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany
Ingrid Wünning-Tschol is Senior Vice President and Head of Health and Research at the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Born in 1958, she received her doctoral degree in biology from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1985. From 1985 to 1990, she conducted postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, USA. Further stations in her career were: Head of Molecular Biology/Cell Biology Unit at the German Research Foundation in Bonn/Germany, Head of Medical Section at the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg/France. She has been with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart/Germany since 1999.
She is or was a member of numerous national and international committees. Among them, she has served as Vice Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB), which directly advised the European Commissioner for Research from 2008 to 2011, during this time she was also a member of the Scottish Government Personal & Support Research Fellowship Selection Panel of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. More recent committee activities include her chairmanship of the EFC Research Forum, her membership of the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, the Steering Committee for ESOF 2016 in Copenhagen, the Board of Trustees for the Falling Walls Conference, the Supervisory Board of Ulm University or the Advisory Board of the Uppsala Health Summit.
bosch-stiftung.de/de/pilotprojekte-fuer-eine-bessere-gesundheitsversorgung