NANOFERRONICS - Key Persons


Amal Aldarawsheh


Andrea Grego

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4004

Anne Korfmacher Ansprechpartnerin

Job Titles:
  • Investigator

Anne Wiegmann

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4004

Britta Bär


Christopher Ball

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development

Claudia Häfner

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 2009

Claudia Rieck


Cornelia Schlebusch

Job Titles:
  • Equal Opportunities Officer

Dietmar Krause

Job Titles:
  • Deputy

Dr. Anne Rother

Job Titles:
  • Spokesperson of Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr. Anne Rother is the press spokesperson of Forschungszentrum Jülich and head of the Corporate Communications department. Her team is the first port of call for everyone who is interested in Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Dr. Arnd Kuhn


Dr. Britta Peschel

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Fields "Information

Dr. Caitlin Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 2009

Dr. David Goyer

Job Titles:
  • Office of the Board of Directors ( VB ) Building 15.3 / Room 3100

Dr. Dorit Jerger

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager for the Center for Advanced Simulation and Analytics ( CASA )
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Fields "Information
  • Scientific Assistant for Digital Change

Dr. Hyunji Park

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4016

Dr. Ir. Peter Jansens

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Board of Directors for Scientific Division II

Dr. Isolde Arzberger

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4002

Dr. Julia Ulrich

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4014
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Field "Energy

Dr. Katja Schöler

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Field "Matter" Nuclear Physics Institute

Dr. Mark-Robert Kalus

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager for Roadmapping and PR Officer for the Helmholtz Association Research Field "Information

Dr. Melanie dos Santos Mendes

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner

Dr. Monika Carlsson

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Field "Energy

Dr. Norbert Drewes

Job Titles:
  • Leitung

Dr. Patrick Bongen

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager for the Center for Advanced Simulation and Analytics ( CASA )

Dr. Ralf Gebel - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Dr. Sabrina Röttger-Wirtz

Job Titles:
  • Office of the Board of Directors ( VB ) Building 15.3 / Room 3100

Dr. Solomon Nwabueze Agbo

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Teamleiter Afrika ( UE - B ) Corporate Development

Dr. Stephan Pötter

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Field "Earth and Environment

Dr. Sven Rank

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Assistant for Digital Change

Dr. Vera Kleber

Job Titles:
  • Head

Edith Salz

Job Titles:
  • Central Coordinator of the IT Committees ( IT Steering Committee, Coordination Team, IT Forum ) Support

Eva Portius

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4016

Felix Sobala

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Florian Schenkelberg


Gabriela Figueroa Miranda

Gabriela Figueroa Miranda is enthusiastic about biosensors: "I am really in love with biosensors", says the scientist from Mexico with a laugh. She develops malaria rapid diagnostic tests and as a young entrepreneur, she now wants to transfer her research to applications.

Gabriele Weiland

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 2008b

Karsten Beneke

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Chair
  • Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Dr. Ir. Peter Jansens Member of the Board of Directors for Scientific Division II and III Since 1 September 2011, Karsten Beneke has been Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors. Previously, he headed the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and was also State Secretary at the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs in the Minister President's Portfolio. Karsten Beneke was born on 18 December 1958 in Potsdam. He attended secondary school in Ulm and then completed his degree in economics at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich in 1984 and remained there as a research assistant until 1987. After being involved in the German Bundestag's committee of enquiry on "Technology Assessment", he moved to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and in 1995 became head of division there. In 1999, Beneke took up a position as head of corporate development and international relations at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Porz, near Cologne, and in 2002 he became director of space flight and transport. Before coming to Jülich, Karsten Beneke was State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs and representative of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the Federal Government. Until 2010 he was head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is married and has four children.

Lars Bieker

Job Titles:
  • Deputy
  • Representative for Employees in Jülich

Lea Donker


Lukas Curakovic

Job Titles:
  • IT Administrator JuDocs Und Projektmanager IT - System DokMS Building 15.3 / Room

Marc Schloßmacher

Job Titles:
  • Administration & Support DokMS Building 15.3 / Room

Peter Heinrich


Prof. Andrea Benigni - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Armin Seyfried - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
Chair; Divisions: Science, external relations and Director for Scientific Division I On 1 August 2023, Prof. Astrid Lambrecht took over as Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich. Already in 2021 she joined the Board of Directors for Scientific Division I, for which she continues to be responsible on an provisional basis. She had previously been Research Director at CNRS - an academic title equivalent to "professor" in Germany. From 2014 to 2015, she was Deputy Director of the LKB, and from 2016, she was Deputy Scientific Director at the CNRS headquarters for the Institute of Physics, which she has headed since 2018. Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Prof. Astrid Lambrecht first studied physics at the University of Essen and at Imperial College London. In 1995, she completed her doctorate at the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory (LKB) in Paris on the topic of cold atoms and quantum fluctuations. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, she moved to the Institute of Physics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris in 1996. In 2002, Lambrecht obtained her habilitation from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Lambrecht's main research was on quantum fluctuations and the forces excited by them. Lambrecht paid particular attention to the microphysical Casimir effect, which, in simple terms, causes two parallel metal plates to attract each other in a vacuum. This effect is of interest in fields such as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) - miniature plates used in smartphones, airbags, and inkjet printers. Lambrecht also researched related phenomena in fields such as atomic physics and nanophysics - and she investigated what role the force of the Casimir effect plays in physical matters in fields such as biology and chemistry. Lambrecht's research enjoys international influence and ranges from basic research to application. During her career, Lambrecht has produced around 150 publications - including popular science works on modern physics. Lambrecht also brings a great deal of experience from numerous international scientific organizations and committees to Jülich. She has been active in funding organizations such as the French National Research Agency (ANR), the American National Science Foundation (NSF), the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has also already contributed her expertise to the German Physical Society (DPG), the US Department of Energy, the French Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment (OPECST) and the French research organisation CEA. At CEA, she is a member of the supervisory board. From 2007 to 2014, Lambrecht was also co-editor of the scientific journal EPL for the field of physics. Lambrecht's most significant awards include the 2005 Aimé Cotton Award from the Société Française de Physique (SFP), the 2013 CNRS silver medal, and the 2016 Gentner-Kastler-Prize from the SFP and DPG. In 2019, she was also awarded the French Legion of Honour order of merit.

Prof. Dr. Carsten Sachse - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Claus Michael Schneider - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Ghaleb Natour - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Jan Vanderborght - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Joachim Mayer - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Konrad - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Merkel - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Simon Eickhoff - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Dr. Stefan Blügel - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Managing Director
  • Head of Peter Grünberg Institute ( PGI - 1 ) and

Prof. Dr. Stephan Förster - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr. Uwe Rau - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Peschel - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Deputy

Prof. Samir Lounis

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Group

Ramona Hausmann


Rebecca Dereli


Renate Rabe


Ricarda Bardenhewer

Job Titles:
  • Research Manager in the Helmholtz Research Fields "Information"

Sabine Clemens

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner
  • Corporate Development ( UE ) Building 15.3 / Room 4004

Sabrina Ecker

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Assistant

Sekretariat der Stabsstelle Vorstandsbüro

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Silke Schilling

Job Titles:
  • Assistant for Digital Change
  • Support of the UE Website / Support of the FDM Toolbox

Susanne Groß

Job Titles:
  • Contact Partner

Thomas Muckenheim


Udo Langer - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman Woman

Ulrike Langen

Job Titles:
  • Deputy

Uriel Aceves

Job Titles:
  • Theoretical Investigation of the Emergence of Majorana States in Nanostructures

Yasmin Ergüven

Job Titles:
  • Secretary