Members of the Academic Advisory Board
The Academic Advisory Board consists of scholars with a proven academic record and experience in supervising doctoral projects who are neither members nor affiliates of the Doctoral School NRW. They are appointed by the Board of Supporters for a term of five years, based on nominations submitted by the Executive Board.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Dörner
Hochschule RheinMain
- Professor of Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
- Spokesperson of the Doctoral Center for Applied Computer Science
Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Carmen Leicht-Scholten
Chair
RWTH Aachen University
- Professor of Gender and Diversity in Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and HUMTEC
- Director of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Hub
Prof. Dr. Friederike zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
- Professor of Nursing and Midwifery Science
Prof. Dr. Walter Schober
Deputy Chairman
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
- President of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
- Chair of Hochschule Bayern, Association of the Bavarian Universities of Applied Sciences
- Professor of Business Administration, Accounting, and Management Control
Prof. Dr. Barbara Thomaß
Ruhr University Bochum
- Professor (emerita) of International Media Systems
- Senior Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marion A. Weissenberger-Eibl
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe
- Chair of Innovation and Technology Management at the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)



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