Our Supervisory Board
Our Supervisory Board "supervises, advises and supports the management of the Science Media Center". This is what it says in our articles of association. The board accompanies us critically and monitors whether we stay on course and fulfil our mission as SMC. The supervisory board is informed by our management and meets four times a year. It has five members from the circle of shareholders, academia and journalism, who are appointed for three years at a time.
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Becker
Director of the Institute of Virology, University of Marburg - Prof. Dr. Carsten Könneker
Member of the Board of the HITS-Foundation and Science Journalist - Dr. Lukas Mezger
Lawyer and Chairman of the Board of Wikimedia Deutschland - Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
Science journalist and YouTuber maiLab, public service online channel funk - Renate Ries
Science Journalist and Author
Our advisory board
We need a lively and critical exchange about journalism with research, media and science communication. The members of our advisory board guarantee expertise and excellence. They accompany and advise us, ask critical questions, give us valuable answers and suggestions for our work. To this end, the advisory board meets regularly with the whole team.
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch
Heisenberg Professor of Health Communication, University of Erfurt - Christina Elmer
Professor of Digital Journalism/Data Journalism, TU Dortmund University - Dr. Marc Jan Eumann
Director of the State Agency for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate, former State Secretary - Prof. Dr. Tobias Gostomzyk
Institute for Journalism, Technical University Dortmund - Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller
Director, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Göttingen - Dr. Henrike Hartmann
Member of the Executive Board, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover - Prof. Dr. Caspar Hirschi
Professor of General History, University of St. Gallen - Jürgen Kaube
Publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main - Gero von Randow
Editor, DIE ZEIT, Hamburg - Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer
Professor of Science Communication and Director of the Center for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS), University of Zurich, Switzerland - Martin Schneider
Head of Editorial Office "Wissenschaftsdokus und Magazine" SWR, and Chairman, Wissenschafts-Pressekonferenz e. V. - Prof. Dr. Edgar Schömig
Chairman of the Board and Medical Director, University Hospital Cologne - Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
Institute for Public Law and International Law, University of Freiburg - Julia Wandt
Rectorate, Department of Communication and Strategy, University of Freiburg and Chairperson, Federal Association of University Communication - Markus Weißkopf
Journalist, Table Media GmbH