Board of Trustees

The primary role of the Board of Trustees is to establish a trusting relation between the institute and the general public. They reflect on science policy as well as on economic and organizational questions. Additionally, the Board of Trustees facilitates contacts to those circles interested in the institute’s work.

Members of the Board of Trustees 2026-2030:

Dr. Andrea Frenzel
Member of the Executive Board of Schott AG

Nino Haase
Mayor of the City of Mainz

Dr. Gerald Hauf
Managing Partner of the Polymer Group, Managing Director of Polymer-Chemie GmbH, Bad Sobernheim

Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug
Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, MAinz

Clemens Hoch
Minister of Science, Further Education, and Health for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz

Dr. Tom Kinzel
Executive Director of the GDCh, Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Georg Krausch
President of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Prof. Klaus Lieb
Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz

Prof. Michael Maskos
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microtechnology and Microsystems IMM, Mainz

Mathias Schöttke
Chief Executive Officer, Federal Employers' Association of the Chemical Industry (BAVC), Wiesbaden

Dr. Carla Seidel
Senior Vice President BASF SE, Ludwigshafen

Dr. Martin Vollmer
Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of XSYS Germany Holding GmbH