Directorate
According to the Hereon statutes, the supervisory board monitors that management activities are appropriate, economically efficient and in conformity with legal norms. Its responsibilities and powers also include:
- making decisions concerning the research center’s strategy, research policies and financial affairs,
- deciding on the principles for evaluating the success of scientific and technical work,
- the authority to issue directives to management and to the scientific technical council in important research policy and financial matters,
- granting the consent necessary for a number of the research center’s legal transactions.
Members of the supervisory board
- Ministerialdirigent Engelbert Beyer (Chairman), Ministry for Education and Research
- State Secretary Dr. Oliver Grundei (Deputy Chairman), Ministry for Science, Social Affairs, Health, Science and Equal Opportunities, Kiel
- Dr. Marcus Beiner, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Hanover
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Berger, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt
- O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Seidler, Rector at the TU Vienna
- N.N., Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Helmholtz-Zentrums Hereon e. V. (Society for the Promotion of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)
- Steffen Weber, Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the Brandenburg, Potsdam
- Leitender Regierungsdirektor Klaus von Lepel, Ministry of Science, Research, Equal Opportunities and Sections Hamburg
- Deputy Director General Heike Imhoff, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn
- Ministerialrätin Zage Kaculevski , Ministry for Education and Research
- Dr. Birgit Hünicke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
- Dr. Carsten Lemmen, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
- Dr. Nico Scharnagl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon