Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is an assembly of selected representatives from politics, industry, science and the media. Its objectives are to connect the Institute to the public.

Members

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauernhansl (Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart)
• Gerhard Borho (Head of Corporate Development & Business Unit Electric Automation, Festo AG & Co.KG, Esslingen)
• Christoph Dahl (General Manager Baden-Württemberg Stiftung gGmbH, Stuttgart)
• Dr. Siegfried Dais (Shareholder of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, Gerlingen)
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler (President of Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen)
• Christian O. Erbe (General Manager ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH, Tübingen)
• Prof. Dr. Holger Hanselka (President Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Dr. Ralf Herbrich (Managing Director and Director for Machine Learning Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH, Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann (Vice Chair) (Professor for Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland)
• Dr. Stefan Kaufmann, MdB (Member of the German Bundestag, Stuttgart)
• Fritz Kuhn (Lord Mayor of the City of Stuttgart)
• Boris Palmer (Lord Mayor of the City of Tübingen)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfram Ressel (Rector of the University Stuttgart)
• Dr. Jeanne Rubner (Chair) (Head of editorial department for Science and Educational Policy, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Munich)
• Theresa Schopper (State Secretary, State Ministry Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
• Dr. Simone Schwanitz (Head of Department, Ministry for Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
• Dr.-Ing. Michael Steiner (Board Member for Research and Development, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart)
• Prof. Dr. Eberhart Zrenner (Chair Professor of Ophthalmology, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen)