Managing Director
Volker Stollorz is managing director of the SMC. A science journalist by passion, he has been reporting on the friction zones between science and society since 1991. After studying biology and philosophy at the University of Cologne and at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the biology graduate experienced the founding of three science desks first-hand (ZEIT, Die Woche, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung). For his reporting in print, online, and broadcast media, the long-standing member of the German Science Journalists’ Association (WPK) has received numerous awards.