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December 02, 2021

Prof. Dr. Volker Markl

BIFOLD researchers honored with BBBAW membership

BIFOLD Co-Director Prof. Dr. Volker Markl and BIFOLD Group Leader Prof. Dr. Frank Noé have been named full members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). They are two of seven outstanding researchers named to the academy on 26 November 2021. The BBAW is one of the most important scientific institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg area and beyond. It elects its members from all over Germany and from abroad. Members are chosen on the basis of outstanding scientific achievements. The BBAW is a learned society with a three-hundred-year-old tradition of uniting outstanding scholars and scientists across national and disciplinary boundaries. 80 Nobel Prize winners have shaped its history.

Additionally, BIFOLD Co-Director Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller became a regular member of acatech, the National Academy of Science and Engineering. acatech advises policymakers and society on issues relating to the future of technology science and technology policy.

A recording of the announcement of new BBAW members at Einsteintag 2021 is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-lUFsLj7I