New member of the board of trustees

Prof. Dr. Robert Feidenhans'l becomes new member of the Board of Trustees of the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Robert Feidenhans'l succeeds Prof. Dr. Jan Louis, Vice President of the University of Hamburg, as an expert in the field of science and research on the Board of Trustees of the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Born in Denmark, Feidenans'l is a physicist and science manager who worked for many years at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, which he also headed for almost five years until 2017, when he became chairman of the management board of the international research facility European XFEL in Hamburg.

Research at the European XFEL X-ray laser covers various research areas from materials and processes to energy, health and biology, which are expected to make significant contributions to solving global challenges.

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