Nicole Du­bilier elec­ted mem­ber of the Academy of Sci­ences in Ham­burg

The mem­bers of the Academy of Sci­ences in Ham­burg (Akademie der Wis­senschaften in Ham­burg) are re­search­ers from the north­ern Ger­man re­gion who dis­tin­guish them­selves through sci­entific ex­cel­lence, in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ar­ity and in­ter­na­tion­al­ity. The Academy of Sci­ences in Ham­burg is or­gan­ized in in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary work­ing groups. Ac­cord­ingly, the Gen­eral As­sembly elects its new mem­bers on the basis of out­stand­ing sci­entific achieve­ments and their ex­pert­ise, on the one hand. On the other hand, it plays a role in com­ple­ment­ing the Academy's in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary re­search fields. Today, the new mem­bers will be of­fi­cially wel­comed at the Academy's an­nual cel­eb­ra­tion in Ham­burg.

In ad­di­tion to Nicole Du­bilier, nu­mer­ous renowned re­search­ers from the re­gion are part of the Academy. It is con­ceived as a work­ing academy: In work­ing groups and pro­ject groups, its mem­bers de­velop in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary re­search pro­jects that ad­dress so­cially sig­ni­fic­ant is­sues of the fu­ture and fun­da­mental sci­entific prob­lems. In ad­di­tion, the Academy makes it its spe­cial task to stim­u­late dis­cus­sion between sci­ence and the pub­lic on these top­ics.