Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees consults and supports the institute’s management and the bodies of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The 36^th Board of Trustees meeting will take place on March 13^rd, 2026. The Board of Trustees consists of the following members:


R. ACHATZ, DR.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
Coach Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Resilience, Munich

C. DALLE DONNE, DR.
Head of Materials, Processes and Tests (ESCM), Airbus Operations GmbH, Bremen

K. DELAEY
Director, Newson NV, Dendermonde, Belgium

T. FEHN, Dr.
Chief Sales Officer TRUMPF Lasertechnology, TRUMPF Lasertechnik SE, Ditzingen

B. FRIEDL, DR.
Head of Operations & BU Services, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Oberkochen

A. HANDSCHUH, DR.
Chief of the State Chancellery and State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs, State Chancellery of Saxony, Dresden

T. HOSENFELDT, PROF. DR.
Senior Vice President Research and Innovation, Central Technology, Schaeffler AG, Herzogenaurach

M. JARONI, DR.
Chief Executive Officer, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg

U. KRAUSE, DR.
Former Head of Branch Office Dresden, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA)

M. KURSAWE, DR.
Director Performance Materials | Operations – Head of EHS & Compliance, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt

A. MAGER
Head of Department Technologies and Equipment, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA), Office Dresden

P. G. NOTHNAGEL
General Representative MIKROMAT GmbH, Dresden

C. RÜTTIMANN, DR.
CTO Bystronic Laser AG, Niederönz, Switzerland

A.-K. SCHATZ, DR.
Head of Division Bund-Länder-Research Institutions, Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism, Dresden

O. SCHAUERTE, DR. 
Group Innovation Materials, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg

R. SCHELL
Head of Innovation Management BMW Motorrad, BMW Group, Munich

I. STOLL, DR.
Director Materials (TEW), MTU Aero Engines AG, Munich

A. TIMM, DR.
Life Science (CR/ATC4), Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart

C. ULLMANN, DR.
CEO Laserline GmbH, Mülheim-Kärlich