Press | Friday, 25 September 2020
Chemist Robert Schlögl is Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The Senate of the Leopoldina elected a new Vice President and a new Secretary yesterday. Chemist and catalysis researcher Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Berlin) is now one of the four Vice Presidents of the Academy. He succeeds physicist Prof. Dr. Gunnar Berg (Halle/Saale), who is leaving office after serving two terms. The Senate also elected historian Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert (Berlin) as Secretary of class IV (humanities, social and behavioural sciences) of the Leopoldina. She succeeds psychologist Prof. Dr. Frank Rösler (Hamburg), who held this office for ten years. Medical historian Prof. Dr. Heinz Schott (Bonn), who served in the Presidium for ten years as commissioner of archives, library, and long-term projects in an advisory capacity, is also stepping down. Plant geneticist Prof. Dr. Ulla Bonas (Halle/Saale) and computer scientist Prof. Dr. Thomas Lengauer (Saarbrücken) were re-elected for a second five-year term of office as Vice President and member of the Presidium.
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