Organisation

ISAS is a non-profit-making research institute in the legal form of a registered society. The purpose of the society is to promote analytical research in materials sciences and life sciences. The society's statutory organs are the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board, the Scientific Advisory Board and the General Meeting. The institute is organised in three research departments; the administrative departments are organised as staff units.

As a member of the Leibniz Association, the institute is sponsored by the German federal government and its states.

The Executive Board at ISAS consists of at least two and at most three members. It heads the society and two of its members represent it judicially and extra-judicially. Together the members of the Executive Board are particularly responsible for determining the strategic objectives of ISAS and for preparing the annual accounts. The duties of the Executive Board are laid down in detail by rules of procedure that regulate the matters reserved for the complete Board and the division of tasks amongst the individual board members. The Executive Board is represented and supported in the fulfilment of its duties by the society's staff in their spheres of responsibility.

from left to right:
Norbert Esser, deputy chairman
Albert Sickmann​, chairman
Jürgen Bethke, chief financial officer

Scientific directors

The Executive Board is supported by the scientific directors, the heads of the research departments at ISAS, in matters of strategic scientific importance. The regular meetings of the directors focus on further developing the institute's research programmes, on coordinating interdisciplinary research and on developing and providing technical science services. This applies both to internal work and to external target groups from science and industry.

Albert Sickmann, Director of Bioanalytics

Norbert Esser, Director of Interface Analytics

Kristina Lorenz, Director of Biomedical Research

Staff units

In the scope of his responsibility for administrative matters, Jürgen Bethke also heads the staff unit Finances, Procurement, IT and Facility Management.

Dorit Günther has been an authorised manager of the society in the scope of the procura since 2012. She heads the staff unit for Personnel, IP Management and Communication.

The Supervisory Board appoints the members of the Board of Directors and undertakes supervisory duties for the society. It oversees all scientific, programmatic and financial matters of the society, insofar as such are not reserved for the General Meeting. It is directly involved in decisions of fundamental importance for the society; in particular, it determines the principles for monitoring the success of the society, approves the financial planning and research planning and prepares proposals for the General Meeting to amend the statutes.

Members of the Supervisory Board:

• Federal Republic of Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
• State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ministry of Culture and Science of the state of NRW, Düsseldorf
• The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery - Science and research, Berlin
• City of Dortmund
• TU Dortmund University
• Ruhr University Bochum
• Berlin Technical University
• Guido Baranowski, TechnologieZentrumDortmund GmbH
• Dr. Susanne Eickemeier, chancellor of the University of Design, Offenbach-on-Main
• Prof. Dr. Werner P. Müller-Esterl, Goethe University Frankfurt
• Prof. Dr. A. Wittinghofer, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
• Dr. Jörg Schneider, DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn

The Scientific Advisory Board provides continuous advice to the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board concerning the on-going scientific work of the society. It monitors the quality of the scientific work by means of annual audits in accordance with the guidelines on quality controls laid down by the Leibniz Association for its member institutes.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board:

• Prof. Dr. Oliver Stefan Ambacher, INATECH Leistungselektronik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
• Prof. Yves Borensztein, CNRS, Institute for NanoSciences, Paris, Frankreich
• Prof. Dr. Britta Brügger, Biochemistry Center (BZH), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg
• Prof. Dr. Jörg Feldmann, College of Physical Sciences - Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Vereinigtes Königreich
• Dr. Gernot Langer, Bayer Pharma AG, Leverkusen
• Prof. Dr. Kathryn Lilley, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics (CPP), University of Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
• Prof. Dr. Markus Sauer, Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie und Biophysik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg
• Prof. Dr. Heike Walles, Deutsches Zentrum für Herzinsuffizienz, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Wilm, Conway Institute, University College Dublin (UCD), Irland

The members of the society exercise their rights of organisation and control in the General Meeting. Among other things, the General Meeting selects the society's auditors, adopts the annual accounts and resolves on the discharge of the Executive Board. The Executive Board comprehensively reports to the General Meeting each year on the situation of the society, including the scientific and financial planning.

Honorary members:

• Dr. Dieter Sommer
• Dr. Günter Prescher

Members of the Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V.:

• Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Bonn
• Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Düsseldorf
• Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei - Wissenschaft und Forschung, Berlin
• BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin, Hannover
• Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf
• Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Dortmund
• KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, Berlin
• Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
• OBLF Gesellschaft für Elektronik und Feinwerktechnik mbH, Witten
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• SENTECH Instruments GmbH, Berlin
• Shimadzu Deutschland GmbH, Duisburg
• Siemens AG, München
• Stadt Dortmund
• Stahlinstitut VDEh, Düsseldorf
• Technische Universität Dortmund
• TechnologieZentrumDortmund GmbH
• Thermo Fisher Scienctific GmbH, Bremen
• Thermo Fisher Scienctific GmbH, Dreieich
• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg
• Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

Work Council:
Dr. Michael Schilling (head of the complete staff council/head of the Dortmund council)
Ilona Engler (head of the Berlin council)

Data protection officer:
Michael Simon, steep GmbH, Bonn

Occupational Safety:
Erika Pulvermacher

Equal Opportunity Commissioner Dortmund:
Regina Fehring

Equal Opportunity Commissioner Berlin:
Heike Gerlach

Radiation Protection Officer:
Erika Pulvermacher

Biological Safety Officer:
Dr. Wolfram Föllmann

Laser Safety Officer Dortmund:
Norman Ahlmann

Laser Safety Officer Berlin:
Reinhard Tischendorf

Ombudsman:
Dr. Dirk Janasek