Professional Duties

1991 - 1992
President European Polymer Federation

1994 - 1996
Chairman Capital Investment Committee, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

1992 - 2012
Member Executive Advisory Board Macromolecular Journals Wiley-VCH

1997 - 2006
Chairman Computer Committee, Max-Planck-Society

1999 - 2005
Member of the Scientific Council of the Federal Republic of Germany

2000 - 2006
President Groupement AMPERE, Magnetic Resonance, Zürich, Switzerland

2001 – 2005
Member International Advisory Board, Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland

2002 – 2012
Member Board of Trustees, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden

2002 – 2011
Member Board of Trustees, International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, University of Münster

2003 - 2008
Member Nominations Committee Leibniz-Prize, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2007 - 2012
Senior Member Gutenberg Academy, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

2008 - 2013
Member Scientific Advisory Board Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of Soft Matter Research

2011 – 2013
President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance, ISMAR

2013 - 2017
Member Scientific Advisory Board Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

2013 - 2018
Chairman „Exploratory Round Table Conferences“(ERTC), Max Planck Society / Chinese Academy of Sciences

2013 -
Member International Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

2014 - 2018
Member Permanent Tenure Committee Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg

2011 -
Member (since 2018 chair) Selection and Evaluation Committee, Institute of Basic Science, Korea