Günter Stock

Prof. Günter Stock currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the Einstein Foundation. From January 2006 until September 2015 he was President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In April 2012 he was elected President of ALLEA (All European Academies). 1980–1983 Professor of Vegetative Physiology in Heidelberg, 1983–2005 Schering AG, from 1989 to 2005 as board member, with responsibility for research and development. Since October 2015, Chairman of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. Günter Stock was Vice-President and member of the Senate and Executive Committee of the Max Planck Society (MPG) until 2011 and Chair of the Jury of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis of the Federal President of Germany until 2012. He was senator of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, senator and member of the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). At present, he is member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of the Academia Europaea, member of various steering committees, supervisory boards and scientific institutions (inter alia Carl Zeiss AG, Charité) and he was spokesperson of the network HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg. Günter Stock is holder of the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and of the Order of Merit of Berlin (Verdienstorden des Landes Berlin).