Official Functions
| 2026 - today | Member of the Board of Trustees of ESYS (acatech) |
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| 2025 - today | Member of the Executive Committee of Leopoldina, National Academy of Science |
| 2023 - today | Member of the University Council of the University of Darmstadt |
| 2023 - today | Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the Science and Humanities Council |
| 2022 - 2023 | Member of the Science and Humanities Council of the German government |
| 2021 - today | Member of the Senate of the Helmholtzgemeinschaft |
| 2021 - 2023 | Chairman of the University Council of the University of Darmstadt |
| 2020 - today | Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung (scientific foundation) |
| 2020 - today | Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Würzburg |
| 2016 - 2023 | Chairman of the Scientific Commission of the Federal State of Niedersachsen (WKN) |
| 2014 - 2020 | Vice President of Max Planck Society |
| 2013 - 2022 | Chairman of the selection committee of the award "Deutscher Zukunftspreis" (German Future Award) |
| 2012 - 2014 | Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2009 - 2020 | Vice Chairman of the Dechema |
| 2007 - today | Member of the University Council of the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2007 - 2014 | Vice President of the DFG (German Research Foundation) |
| 2006 - today | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Chemistry – An Asian Journal” |
| 2006 - 2021 | Editor of "Chemistry of Materials" |
| 2005 - 2022 | Chairman of the Investment Committee “Life Science, Materials and Energy” of the HTGF |
| 1999 - 2023 | Co-founder and chairman of the Board of Directors of the company hte (www.hte-company.de) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of hte |
| Member of the editorial boards of about 10 scientific journals |