Verena Schultz-Coulon is the new Administrative Director at the MPI für Kohlenforschung

Dr. Verena Schultz-Coulon has taken over as head of administration at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung on May 1st, 2020. Schultz-Coulon studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and did her doctorate at the University of Bayreuth. She comes from the University of Heidelberg, where she was head of the "Student Affairs and Teaching" department for the past eight years. With her move to the Mülheim Institute, she is looking forward to expanding her field of activity to include the complex requirements of a foundation: "As a chemist I knew the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung of course well and I am very much looking forward to supporting catalysis research with a service and solution oriented administration.”
Verena Schultz-Coulon succeeds Dr. Hermann Thole.