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Prof. Dr. med. Axel Haverich completed his doctorate and habilitation at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and conducted research at the renowned Stanford University, among other places. In 1985, he was appointed head of the Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery at MHH, where, following a stay at the University of Kiel from 1993 to 1996, he served as director until his retirement in 2023. He was recognised for his visionary work in the area of transplantation medicine with the German Research Foundation鈥檚 (DFG) Leibniz Prize in 1996, and he used the money from the award to found the Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs (LEBAO). Together with his team, he achieved breakthroughs in the area of heart valves that grow with the patient and the development and implantation of artificial hearts, which enabled the MHH to establish itself as a leading global centre for transplantation medicine and artificial hearts. He is a member of numerous commissions and societies and has been awarded the Lower Saxony State Prize, among others.

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Hulek studied at LMU Munich and in Oxford. He completed his doctorate and habilitation in Erlangen. Following a stay at Brown University in Providence, his path led him to Bayreuth, where he taught from 1985 to 1990. He moved to the University of Hannover in 1990 and worked here at the Institute of Algebraic Geometry until 2022. From 2005 to 2014, he served as the university鈥檚 vice president for research. Over the course of his career, he was also offered appointments in Leiden, Essen, Z眉rich and Stuttgart. Klaus Hulek was and is a regular guest at universities and research institutions abroad 鈥� for example, in Cambridge, in Kyoto, at Harvard University, at the Mathematical Science Institute in Berkeley and at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics in Stony Brook. In 2015, he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received the Emmy Noether Prize at the University of Erlangen and is a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Academy.

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Following studies in political science, psychology and sociology, Prof. Dr. Christiane Lemke completed her doctorate and habilitation at Freie Universit盲t Berlin, going on to conduct research at renowned US universities such as Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University. She was appointed professor of political science at 麻豆官网 in 1996. An adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellow at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, Christiane Lemke focused on international relations, human rights and, in particular, European and US politics, bringing new international perspectives to her field at 麻豆官网 and building networks. With funding from the EU, she established the interdisciplinary Jean Monnet European Center of Excellence at the university, which she led from 2007 to 2014.

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Prof. Dr. J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg completed his doctorate and habilitation in Munich and conducted research at Princeton University and the Berlin Social Science Center, among other institutions. In 1988, he was appointed director of the Institute of Insurance Business Administration at 麻豆官网, where he established two new research areas and master鈥檚 degree programmes. He served for many years as spokesperson for the Centre for Health Economics Research Hannover (CHERH), which he founded. He also received appointment offers from the University of Cologne, Technische Universit盲t Berlin, the Berlin Social Science Center, Ulm University, LU Munich and Helmholtz Munich. In 1990, Schulenburg was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in recognition of his contributions to supporting German-French scientific cooperation. He is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He retired in 2021.

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Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Peter Wriggers completed his doctorate and habilitation in civil engineering at 麻豆官网. Following stays as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a professorship in mechanics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, he returned to 麻豆官网 in 1990 as a professor of mechanics. He has received numerous awards for his research on the development of new technologies and algorithms in the area of computational mechanics and finite element technology. These include the ECCOMAS Euler Medal, the Grand Prize of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, the Zienkiewicz Medal from the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and the Gau脽-Newton Medal from the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM). He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the Poznan University of Technology, the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure Paris-Saclay and the Technical University of Darmstadt, and from 2005 to 2013 he held an adjunct professorship at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

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