The Scientific Advisory Board is the statutory body of the Independent Institute (UfU) e.V. The Board supports and advises UfU in its day-to-day work. The Advisory Board meets every two years to discuss environmental policy developments and research-related issues. In addition the members of the Advisory Board liaise with partner organizations or are invited as experts at discussion events.
Rosemarie Benndorf Meteorologist, former research associate in the “Protection of the Earth’s Atmosphere” department of the Federal Environment Agency; founding member of UfU e.V.
Prof. Dr. John Bonine: Lawyer, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Eugene, Oregon USA, founder of the worldwide environmental law network Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Prof. Dr. Edmund Brandt Lawyer, political scientist and administrative scientist, holder of the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Administrative Sciences; also Head of the Institute of Law, Technical University of Braunschweig
Former university professor Dr. Wilfried Endlicher Geographer and Senior Professor of Climatology and Climatological Environmental Research, Humboldt University Berlin
Dr. Arnold Fuchs: Geologist, Head of the Department of Crafts, Interreg, Waste Management, Occupational Health and Safety at the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Health of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Prof. em. Dr. Hartmut Graßl : Professor of General Meteorology (1989 to 1994 and 1999 to 2005) at the University of Hamburg, also Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in between Head of the United Nations (UN) World Climate Research Program in Geneva
Prof. Dr. Gerhard de Haan: Educational scientist and sociologist, Director of the Institute for Educational Futures Research Institut Futur at the FU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Hermann Körndle: Psychologist, Senior Professor for the Psychology of Teaching and Learning, TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreibich: Physicist and sociologist, Director and Managing Director of the Secretariat for Futures Studies (SFZ), Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Heike Molitor Cultural scientist, Professor of Environmental Education/Education for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
Prof. Dr. Konrad Ott: Philosopher, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at the University of Kiel, member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment from 2000 to 2008
Dr. Reinhard Piechocki Biologist, former employee of the BfN’s International Academy for Nature Conservation on Vilm Island; founding chairman of UfU e.V.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ronald Plath High-voltage engineer, Department of High Voltage, Institute of Energy and Automation Technology, TU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Alexander Schmidt Lawyer, Professor of Environmental and Planning Law, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg
Prof. Dr. Christian Schrader Lawyer, Professor of Constitutional, Environmental and Technology Law, University of Applied Sciences in Fulda
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Udo E. Simonis Former research professor “Environmental Policy” at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB); 1992 to 1996 member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), 1992 to 2016 editor and co-editor of the “Yearbook Ecology”
Prof. Dr. Eveline WittmannCommercial teacher, Professor of Vocational Education, TU Munich
PD Dr. Heike Zimmermann-Timm Biologist, Lecturer in Ecology, Evolution and Diversity in the Department of Biology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main; Deputy Chair of the Earth System Science Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Consultant in the field of scientific organizational development
Status February 2020