Management & Boards

Board of Directors

The joint interests of the institute as a whole are subject to the scientific and administrative management of the Board of Directors. The institute currently has five directors.

Perceiving Systems

Michael Black

Director

Social Foundations of Computation

Moritz Hardt

Director

Robotic Materials, Physical Intelligence

Christoph Keplinger

Managing Director

Haptic Intelligence

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Director

Empirical Inference

Bernhard Schölkopf

Director

Managing Directors

The members of the Board of Directors select a Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of the institute who execute the daily affairs. The Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of the institute as a whole are simultaneously Managing Directors of their respective local institute site.

Managing Director

(Managing Director, Stuttgart)

Deputy Managing Director

(Managing Director, Tübingen)

Robotic Materials, Physical Intelligence

Christoph Keplinger

Managing Director

Social Foundations of Computation

Moritz Hardt

Director

The Managing Directors and Boards of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are supported by a team of executive staff members who provide administrative and scientific expertise.

Administration

Aline Dietrich

Head of Administration

+49 7071 601 1774

Scientific Coordination Office

Eva Lämmerhirt

Referentin der Geschäftsleitung | Institute Management Officer

+49 7071 601 1766

Scientific Coordination Office

Matthias Tröndle

Head of Scientific Coordination Office

+49 7071 601 1789

Scientific Advisory Board

To ensure superior scientific quality, each Max Planck Institute is regularly evaluated by a Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). The board members, experts from leading international research institutions and universities, are appointed by the President of the Max Planck Society and serve in an honorary capacity.

Chair: Prof. Dr. William T. Freeman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Prof. Dr. Costantino Creton
ESPCI, Paris, France
Prof. Dr. Rita Cucchiara
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Prof. Dr. Marc O. Ernst
University of Ulm, Germany
Prof. Dr. Dario Floreano
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Robert Jenssen
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Prof. Dr. Negar Kiyavash
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Laschi
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Maja Matarić
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prof. Dr. Bin Yu
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Board of Trustees

Each Max Planck Institute has a Board of Trustees that fosters connections with the public, promotes the institute's work, and strengthens public confidence in autonomous research. The Board of Trustees consists of representatives from various sectors, including politics, industry, academia, and media, who are appointed by the President of the Max Planck Society and serve in an honorary capacity.

Chair: Prof. Dr. Jeanne Rubner (Vice President Global Communication and Public Engagement, Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich
Theresia Bauer (General Manager Baden-Württemberg Stiftung GmbH, Stuttgart)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauernhansl (Director of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart)
Clemens Benz (Ministerialdirigent, Head of the Department of Research and Medicine, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart)
Dr. Michael Bolle (Chairman of the Shareholder Council of the Carl Zeiss Foundation, Heidenheim an der Brenz and Jena)
Gerhard Borho (Member of the Management Board Information Technology and Digitalization of Festo SE & Co. KG, Esslingen)
Christian O. Erbe (Executive Manager ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH, Tübingen)

Prof. Dr. Ralf Herbrich (Managing Director & Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Middendorf (Rector of the University Stuttgart)
Dr. Frank Nopper (Lord Mayor of the City of Stuttgart)
Boris Palmer (Lord Mayor of the City of Tübingen)
Prof. Dr. Bernd Pichler (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen)
Prof. Dr. Karla Pollmann (Rector of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen)
Dr.-Ing. Michael Steiner (Member of the Executive Board Research and Development of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart)