The MPDL Advisory Board supports and advises the President, the accountable Vice Presidents, the Secretary General and the Max Planck Digital Library on the Max Planck Society's strategy relating to electronic scientific media and tools and the Society's open access policy.

The MPDL Advisory Board also forges a link between the Max Planck Digital Library and the sections, i.e. the institutes, and other involved units of the Max Planck Society. In addition, it is responsible for other tasks relating to the Max Planck Digital Library, including supporting and advising the Library on its ongoing duties and preparing reports on joint applications for central project financing by institutes and the Max Planck Digital Library.

The MPDL Advisory Board was appointed on June 17, 2010 by the Senate of the Max Planck Society. On January 1, 2012 it took its place within more than a decade of tradition represented by the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Services Program of the Max Planck Society (LA sInfo, 2004-2011) and the preceding Advisory Committee on Information Provision (BI, 1999-2003). Among other duties, the MPDL Advisory Board now carries on the work of its predecessors.

August 2024

MPDL Advisory Board Members

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter Vice President, Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Chairperson

Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology 

Scientific Member of the Biology & Medicine Section

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hummer Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

Scientific Member of the Biology & Medicine Section

Prof. Dr. Gerard Meijer Managing Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society Scientific Member of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section

Prof. Dr. Markus Reichstein Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Scientific Member of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section

Alfred Freeborn Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Academic Staff of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen Director and Scientific Member at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History

Scientific Member of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schäfer Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Scientific Member of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Matthias Herrmann Max Planck Institute for Biology Tuebingen

Academic Staff of the Biology & Medicine Section

Dr. Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH

Academic Staff of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section

Sebastian Nix Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Representative of the spokespersons of the information service providers
at the MPIs

N.N.

Representative of the Secretary General

Maximilian Prugger Deputy Secretary General of the MPS

Representative of the Secretary General

N.N.

Representative of the Advisory Committee for IT Equipment (BAR)

Dr. Stefan Vollmar Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research

Representative of the ICT Speakers Council (IT-Sprecherkreis)

Dr. Robert Casties Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Permanent guest from the central works council

 

Earlier Governing Bodies

 

MPDL Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth Vice President of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section of the Max Planck Society

Vice President & Chairperson

Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry 

Scientific Member of the Biology & Medicine Section

Prof. Dr.-Ing Gerhard Weikum Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Scientific Member of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section

Dr. Susanne Kubersky-Piredda Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History

Academic Staff of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Scientific Member of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D. Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Scientific Member of the Humanities & Social Sciences Section

Dr. Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Academic Staff of the Biology & Medicine Section

Prof. Dr. Holger Kantz Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

Academic Staff of the Chemistry, Physics & Technology Section

Karin Kastens Head of Library at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Member of the Librarian Speakers Council (Sprecherrat der Bibliotheken)

Rüdiger Willems Deputy Secretary General of the Max Planck Society

Representative of the Secretary General

Gerry Truschkewitz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems

Representative of the ICT Speakers Council (IT-Sprecherkreis)