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Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics is an institute of the Max Planck Society. It is associated with the European Fusion Programme and the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
 

IPP's work is decided by the following executive and advisory boards:
 

Directorate

The Directorate of IPP is responsible for conducting the day-to-day business, deciding on the use of budget funds, supervising and regulating the course of research work, deciding on personnel matters, and representing IPP internally and externally. It comprises:

• Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter (Chairman and Scientific Director)
• Susanne Russell (Administrative Director)
• Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zohm
• Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf

 

Board of Scientific Directors

The Board of Scientific Directors of IPP, comprising the Full Scientific Fellows at IPP, is responsible for drawing up the research programme and deciding the time, personnel and funds allocated to research objectives:

• Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter (Chair and Scientific Director)
• Dr. Tim Happel
• Prof. Dr. Per Helander
• Prof. Dr. Frank Jenko
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Klinger
• Prof. Dr. Rachael M. McDermott
• Prof. Dr. Eric Sonnendrücker
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stroth
• Prof. Dr. Robert Wolf
• Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zohm
• Susanne Russell (Commercial Managing Director, permanent guest)

 

Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board advises the Directorate and Board of Scientific Directors on the scientific programme and its consequences for the proposed budget, and accordingly settles the budget. Besides the President of the Max Planck Society, the Supervisory Board comprises four representatives from politics and four others appointed by the Max Planck Society.

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer
  Chairman
  President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
• Dr. Volkmar Dietz
  Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  Former President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.
• Dr. Stefan Kaufmann
  Advisor to thyssenkrupp AG for the development of the hydrogen economy
• Prof. Dr. Renate Köcher
  Managing Director of the Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Joachim Ullrich
  Vice-President of the German Physical Society
• Woldemar Venohr
  Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
• Prof. Dr. Johanna Weber
  Former Rector of the University of Greifswald
• Dr. Markus Wittmann
  Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, as representative of the Free State of Bavaria

 

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board advises the Directorate primarily in matters relating to the planning and implementation of research projects. It also advises the President of the Max Planck Society on the scientific development of the institute.

• Dr. Enrique Ascasibar Zubizarreta
  Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
• Prof. Dr. Steve Allen
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, San Diego, USA
• Prof. Dr. David T. Anderson
  University of Wisconsin, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Madison, USA
• Prof. Dr. Martine (Tine) Baelmans
  KU Leuven, Applied Mechanics and Energy conversion (TME), Leuven, Belgium
• Dr. Daniela Farina
  National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (ISTP), Milano, Italy
• Prof. Dr. Ambrogio Fasoli (Chairman)
  EPFL SB SPC-TCV, PPB 320 (Bâtiment PPB), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Christian M. Franck
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Tünde-Maria Fülöp
  Chalmers tekniska högskola, Institutionen för fysik, Göteborg, Sweden
• Prof. Dr. Monika Kubkowska
  Instytut Fizyki Plazmy i Laserowej Mikrosyntezy, Warsaw, Poland
• Dr. Joelle Mailloux
  Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
• Dr. Jonathan E. Menard
  Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, USA
• Prof. Dr. Scott E. Parker
  University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, USA
• Dr. Francesca Poli
  ITER Organization, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex, France

Scientists Representative Council

The Scientists' Representative Council is a body elected by the scientific personnel of IPP which advises the Scientific Directorate of IPP and is consulted on important matters relating to personnel:

• Dr. Alexander Bock
• Dr. Kai-Jakob Brunner*
• Dr. Gareth Roberg-Clark
• Dr. Sven Degenkolbe (Deputy Chairman)
• Dr. Sina Fietz
• Frank Fleschner*
• Dr. Tobias Görler
• Dr. Michael Griener (Chairman)
• Dr. Thomas Hayward-Schneider*
• Dr. Florian Hindenlang*
• Dr. Arne Meindl
• Dr. Dmitry Moseev
• Dr. Stefan Possannner
• Prof. Dr. Josefine Proll
• Dr. Johann Riesch
• Dr. Dirk Stieglitz* 
• Dr. Georg Schlisio
• Dr. Philipp Schneider*
• Dr. Thomas Wegner*
• Dr. Christian Wimmer
• Dr. Marco Zanini*

*Deputy

 

Staff Representative Councils

The two Staff Representative Councils of IPP – at the Garching and Greifswald sites – are elected by the respective personnel. They are constituted under the terms of the Industrial Relations Act.

• Garching, Chair: Dr. Matthias Reich
• Greifswald, Chair: Sylvio Raatz