Presidents and Management Board
The Academy’s board of directors consists of presidents Claudia Eckert and Thomas Weber, as well as managing directors Anna Frey and Wolfgang Siegel.
Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert
acatech President, acatech member
Other Offices and Mandates
- Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC)
- Chair of Security in Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Bundesdruckerei, Berlin
- Member of the Supervisory Board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Member of the Supervisory Board of TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG
- Member of the Supervisory Board of BWI GmbH
- Member of Plattform Industrie 4.0, Working Group 3: Security, and Member of the Board of Academic Advisors of Plattform Industrie 4.0
- Member of Plattform Lernende Systeme, Working Group: IT Security, Privacy, Legal and Ethical Framework
- Member of National Platform Future of Mobility, Working Group 3: Digitalisation for the Mobility Sector
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Forschungsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit (FU Berlin)
- Chair of the Board of Trustees of Competence Center Technology-Diversity-Equal Opportunities e.V. (kompetenzz)
- Member of the Academic Advisory Council of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin
- Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)
- Recipient of award from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: “Deutschlands Digitale Köpfe 2014”
- Chair of the IT Security platform of Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B)
- Member of the Board of Münchner Kreis
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Metrology Institute (PTB)
- Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation (DCSO)
- Member of the Computer Science Review Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Member of the Kassel University Council
- Member of the Working Group of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) tasked with preparing Perspektiven der Informatik in Deutschland
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Nationale Cyber-Sicherheitsrat
- Member of the Project Advisory Board of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT)
- Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft für Forschungstransfer (GFFT)
- Member of the Wise Council of the Cyber Security Cluster, Bonn
- Scientific Director with responsibility for developing the cybersecurity research roadmap for the SPARTA project (one of four pilot projects focused on establishing a European cybersecurity network)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation
- Deputy Chair of Security Network Munich (SNM)
- Member of the Bavarian AI Council
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Martin Bimmer
Scientific Advisor to the President
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h Siegfried Russwurm
acatech President, acatech member, acatech Senator
Other Offices and Mandates
- President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
- Member of the Management Board of the Friends Association of the National Academy of Science and Engineering
- Member of the Executive Board of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Leipziger Stiftung für Innovation und Technologietransfer
- Chair of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG
- Chair of the Shareholders’ Committee and Supervisory Board of Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH
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Wolfgang Blumthaler
Scientific Advisor to the President
Dr. Anna Frey
Chief Scientific Officer
Other Offices and Mandates
None
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Maximilian Heiser
Assistant to the Managing Director
Wolfgang Siegel
Chief Administrative Officer
Other Offices and Mandates
None
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Magdalena Lorsch-Dalkaya
Assistant to the Managing Director