Scientific Advisory Board

Since 2015, the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections is supported by a Scientific Advisory Board, which regularly receives information on the Office's ongoing projects, activities and exhibitions. As an advisory body, the Board supports the Office's Director and the University Executive Board with specialist knowledge and makes recommendations for the further development of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections as well as the conceptual and longer-term university collection and exhibition activities. 

The Advisory Board consists of up to seven scientists and researchers working in  museums, universities or other academic institutions. Its members are appointed by the University Executive Board for up to 4 years, with the option of extension for a further 4 years.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board

2025-2028 (in office)

• Dr. Michael Farrenkopf
  Head of der the Montanhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum (documentation department) and member of the  directorate at Deutschen Bergbau-Museums Bochum
• Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann
  Professor of History of Technology and Economy at TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Lutz Strobach
  Professor of Conservation and Restoration of Modern Materials and Technical Cultural Assets at HTW Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Karsten Wesche
  Director and head of section Phanerogams I at Senckenberg Museum for Natural History as well as Professor for the Biodiversity of Higher Plants at TU Dresden

• Dr. Marius Winzeler
  Director of the Grünes Gewölbe (Baroque treasury) and the Rüstkammer (armory) and deputy general director at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

• Prof. Dr. Volker Wissemann
  Professor for Special Botanics at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and 1. Chair of the German Gesellschaft für Universitätssammlungen e.V.
• Dr. Martin Zavesky
  Advisor for digital strategies in the general director's department at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

2016-2024

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Hänseroth
  Senior Professor at the Chair of History of Technology and Economy, TU Dresden (1st Chairman)
• Associate Professor Dr. Gilbert Lupfer
  Director of the German Lost Art Foundation and Honorary Professor at TU Dresden
• Dr. Peter Plaßmeyer
  Director of the Mathematical-Physical Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections)
• Prof. Dr. Lutz Strobach
  Professor of Conservation and Restoration of Modern Materials and Technical Cultural Assets at HTW Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Thalheim
  Former Section Head and Curator of Mineralogy, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, and Honorary Professor of Applied Mineralogy, TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Weber
  Honorary Professor of Scientific Collections and Knowledge Transfer at Justus Liebig University Giessen, former Head of the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany