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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.

Portrait Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert
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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

Contact

Martin Bimmer
Scientific Advisor to the President

 

 

 

 

Portrait Thomas Weber
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weber

acatech President, acatech member, acatech Senator

Other Offices and Mandates

  • Member of the Advisory Board of Brose, a family business, Bamberg
  • Member of the Dürr Technology Council, Dürr AG, a public limited company, Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Röchling Automotive (RAAB), Röchling SE & CoKG, Mannheim
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility (MCFM), McKinsey & Company Inc., Munich, Germany
  • Member of the „Magna Technology Advisory Councils”, Magna, Automotive Holding GmbH Deutschland, Sailauf
  • Member of the Advisory Board of DEKRA e.V., Stuttgart
  • Member of the Sustainability Council of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
  • Member of the Foundation Council of the Stiftung Werner von Siemens-Ring, Berlin
  • Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart

Contact

Wolfgang Blumthaler
Scientific Advisor to the President

 

 

 

 

Dr. Anna Frey

Chief Scientific Officer

Other Offices and Mandates

None

Contact

Maximilian Heiser
Assistant to the Managing Director

 

 

 

 

Ein Porträtfoto von Dipl. Kaufmann Wolfgang Siegel im blauen Anzug
© Svea Pietschmann

Wolfgang Siegel

Chief Administrative Officer

Other Offices and Mandates

None

Contact

Magdalena Lorsch-Dalkaya
Assistant to the Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

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