Scientific Advisory Board

Since 2015, the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections has been supported by a Scientific Advisory Board that is regularly informed about its projects, activities and exhibition plans. As an advisory body, it supports the director and the University Executive Board with its expertise and provides recommendations on the further development of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, as well as on the conceptual and longer-term collection and exhibition activities of the University. The Advisory Board includes up to seven researchers from museums, universities or other scientific institutions whose members are appointed by the University Executive Board.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board (as of 2020):

• Professor Dr. Thomas Hänseroth, Chair of Technology and the History of the Science of Technology, TU-Dresden (President)
• Apl.-Professor Dr. Gilbert Lupfer, Head of Research and Academic Cooperation, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) (Vice-President)
• Dr. Peter Plaßmeyer, Director, Mathematisch-Physikalischer-Salon (Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections)
• Dr. Lutz Strobach, Head of Restoration, the Bundeswehr Museum of Military History
• Dr. Cornelia Weber, Honorary Professor of Scientific Collections and Knowledge Transfer at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, former Head of the Liaison Office for Scientific University Collections, HU University Berlin