Organisation

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Scientific Advisory Board >

Chair
Gabriele Gerlach

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Management

Director a. i.
Sonja Jähnig

Managing Director in the Forschungsverbund Berlin e. V. > 
Martin Böhnke

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Administration >

Head of Administration
Gwendolyn Billig

Purchasing, Finance, Personnel
Gwendolyn Billig

Library >
Jana Rumler

Information Technology >
Christian Baal

Technical Services >
Bernd Schubert

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Staff units

Science Officer
Ina Severin

Communications and Knowledge Transfer >
Angelina Tittmann

Career Development > 
Kirsten Pohlmann

Liaison Officer for Sustainability Research
Sibylle Schroer

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Research departments

(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry >
Dörthe Tetzlaff

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology >
Sonja Jähnig

(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology > 
Sabine Wollrab and Hans-Peter Grossart

(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture >
Jens Krause

(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology a. i. >
Michael T. Monaghan 

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Programme areas

(PA 1) Biodiversity in a Changing World >
Franz Hölker and Justyna Wolinska

(PA 2) Ecosystem Services for a Sustainable Future >
Martin Pusch

(PA 3) Dimensions of Complexity of Aquatic Systems >
Tobias Goldhammer and Stephanie Spahr

(PA 4) Predictive Ecology in the Anthropocene >
Lynn Govaert, Sami Domisch, Markus Venohr and Sabine Hilt

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Representatives

Ombudsperson
Sami Domisch and Sabine Wollrab (deputy)

Equal Opportunities Officer >
Kirsten Pohlmann and Justyna Wolinska (deputy)

Diversity Officer>
Kirsten Pohlmann

Disability Representative
Torsten Preuer

Doctoral Candidates' Representatives
Athena Karapli-Petritsopoulou, Alejandra Villa, Yuyuan Liu, Emily Booms, Julia Golebiowska, Sai Hariharan, Vanderville Villegas

Postdoc Representatives
Igor Ogashawara, Ashton Laura DickersonPhoebe Griffith Kristel Sanchez, Tamal Roy,  Cong Jiang, David Farò, Paula Torre Zaffaroni

Works Council
Wibke Kleiner (chair), Sascha BehrensClaudia SchmalschFrank Kalinowski, Julia Scheunert, Constancia Levertz, Franziska Schmid, Marcus Ebert, Jürgen Schreiber

Animal Welfare Officer 
Nadja Neumann

Strategic HR developement/HRS4R

Steering group: Sonja Jähnig, Gwendolyn Billig, Ina Severin, Kirsten Pohlmann

HRS4R working group: Doctoral Candidates' Representatives (s.a.), Postdoc Representatives (s.o.);  Group leaders: Max Wolf, Jörn Geßner; further support fuctions: Melanie Oertel, Sylvia Jordan, Wibke Kleiner; Equal Opportunities Officer (s.o.), Diversity Officer (s.o.)