Organizational structure

Executive board

The executive board manages the Research School. It is constituted by:

Speaker of the IMPRS

Prof Peter Fratzl
Head of the Department of Biomaterials
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Vice-speaker of the IMPRS

Prof Svetlana Santer
Chair of Experimental Physics
Institute of Physics and Astronomy
University of Potsdam

Coordinator of the IMPRS

Dr Angelo Valleriani
Department of Theory and Bio-Systems
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Steering committee

The steering committee of the IMPRS is composed by the executive board, and by four additional representatives, one from each participating institution, and by the students representative. These are:

Prof Peter H. Seeberger
Head of the Department of Biomolecular Systems
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Prof Silke Leimkuehler
Chair of Molecular Enzymology
Institute of Biology and Biochemistry
University of Potsdam

Prof Joachim Heberle
Chair of Experimental Molecular Biophysics
Institute of Experimental Physics
Free University Berlin

Prof Juergen Rabe
Chair of Macromolecular Physics
Institute of Physics
Humboldt University Berlin