| Martin Klumpp Martin Klumpp studied protestant theology in Tübingen, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, and carries additional qualifications in psychology for marriage guidance, as well as family and life issues. During his rectorate at the Hospitalkirche Stuttgart, he also established and managed the Hospitalhof training center. As the city deacon in Stuttgart he was last the prelate of the Evangelische Landeskirche for the Stuttgart parish as well as the canon at the Stuttgart Stiftskirche. Klumpp retired in the fall of 2005. While being named as co-founder and long-time volunteer at Hospiz Stuttgart, Klumpp’s work focused on discussion groups for people in mourning, and Klumpp was also chairman of the development association, as well as chairman of the Verein Evangelische Ausbildungsstätten für Sozialpädagogik colleges in Herbrechtingen, Reutlingen, Schwäbisch Hall and Stuttgart. In addition, Klumpp served as deputy chairman of the Evangelische Seminarstiftung with protestant theological seminars in Blaubeuren and Maulbronn and he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tübinger Stift Foundation. |
| Dr. phil. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller President of the TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG. Responsible for corporate strategy, corporate communications as well as real estate and facilities. Born 1959 in Wilmington, Ohio, USA. Studied German, English and Japanese language and literature in Freiburg, Germany, Middlebury, VT, USA, and Zurich, Switzerland, earning her doctorate. Since 1984, worked in the Press and Public Relations office of the TRUMPF Group and from 1988 to 1990 for the TRUMPF Corporation in Japan. From 1992 to 2010, Managing Director, Berthold Leibinger Foundation, GmbH, since 1994 holding partner of the TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG and since January 2003, Executive Vice President, TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG. In November 2005, Dr. Leibinger-Kammueller was appointed President of the TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG, the management holding of the TRUMPF Group. Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller performs many honorary functions in the scientific, cultural and social sector. She is member of the Supervisory Boards of Lufthansa AG, Siemens AG, Voith AG and Axel Springer AG as well as of the Advisory Board of the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg. |
| Professor Dr. Wolfgang Sandner Wolfgang Sandner studied physics and received his PhD at Freiburg University in 1979, where he also received habilitation six years later. From 1986 he taught as full professor at Würzburg and Freiburg University as well as in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA from where he was called to a position in Germany. He now is Director at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin Adlershof - an institute of the Leibniz Association - as well as professor at the Technical University Berlin. Since 2009 he also is Vice Chairman in the Board of Representatives of Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. His current research covers the basic research on light-matter interaction at ultra-high intensities, this includes the development and application of short-pulse lasers of highest peak and average power for laser particle acceleration, the research on and with laser-based UV- and X-ray sources as well as special lasers for special applications (Free Electron Lasers). He is the author of more than 200 refereed publications in international journals. After he became director of the MBI Professor Sandner was called into many national and international organisations of science and of research policy particularly in the EU, as an advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and as member of scientific advisory boards of many research institutes. Since 2003 he is co-ordinator of the European Union Research Infrastructure Network LASERLAB EUROPE consisting of 26 of the most important laser research institutes from 16 European countries. Wolfgang Sandner is "Fellow of the American Physical Society" (1994) and President-elect (since March 2009) of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft DPG (German Physical Society). |
| Dr. Rainer Wilhelm Dr. Rainer Wilhelm studied economics at Stuttgart and Munich Universities. He was most recently the vice president of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Region Stuttgart and of the consortium of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Baden-Württemberg, as well as the deputy chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Chamber of Commerce in Austria. Wilhelm retired in 1996, and afterwards, served as a member or chairman of numerous supervisory boards and advisory committees, as well as volunteering in cultural institutions in Baden-Württemberg and beyond. Awards, among others: "Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg" and "Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich" |
  
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