Re-appointment of Wolfgang Lehner to the German Science and Humanities Council

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has reappointed Wolfgang Lehner as a member of the Scientific Commission of the WR in recognition of his work combining scientific excellence with expertise and experience in science policy. The reappointment extends his initial appointment to this office in February 2023 for a further three years.

Wolfgang Lehner's previous term of office in the WR was characterized above all by his role as chairman of the newly established focus group "AI in Research", which was transferred to an official working group of the WR in July 25. Wolfgang Lehner also led the structural evaluation of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), which was successfully completed in 2025. His work portfolio is rounded off by his involvement in the Research Committee, in particular in the preparation of the position paper on "Science and Security in Times of Global Political Upheaval", as well as evaluations in the working group on the prioritization of national large-scale research infrastructures.

Personal details:
Wolfgang Lehner has been Chair of Databases at TU Dresden since 2002 and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark, since 2024. He completed his doctorate in 1998 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on the topic of "Query processing in multidimensional database systems".
Wolfgang Lehner was an elected member of the DFG's Review Board for Computer Science from 2012 to 2018 and of the Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centers and a member of the DFG's Grants Committee from 2019 to 2024. In January of this year, he was appointed an ACM Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

About the German Science and Humanities Council:
The German Science and Humanities Council is the oldest science policy advisory body in Europe and advises the Federal Government and the governments of the federal states on all issues relating to the content and structural development of science, research and the higher education sector

Contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner, Phone +49 351 463-38383
E-mail: wolfgang.lehner@tu-dresden.de