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Federal President Appoints Gabriele Sadowski to German Council of Science and Humanities

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Prof. Gabriele Sadowski is Professor of Thermodynamics at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund University since 2001.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Federal President, has appointed four new members to the German Council of Science and Humanities for three years starting on 1 February 2022. Among them is Gabriele Sadowski, professor for thermodynamics at TU Dortmund University. As a new member of the Council, she will advise the federal and state governments on the future development of science, research, and higher education.

The German Council of Science and Humanities is Europe’s oldest advisory board in the area of science policy. New members are appointed at regular intervals at the suggestion of Germany’s most important science organizations – the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society, the German Rectors’ Conference, the Helmholtz Association, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Leibniz Association. “It’s a great honor to be appointed to the German Council of Science and Humanities. I’m very much looking forward to this important task,” says Professor Sadowski. As a member of the Scientific Commission, she will contribute to working groups and committees on specific topics. Here, her scientific excellence combined with her competence and experience in the field of science policy plays an important role.

About Professor Gabriele Sadowski

Professor Gabriele Sadowski is only the third member of TU Dortmund University to be appointed to the German Council of Science and Humanities. She has been professor for thermodynamics at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering since 2001. In 2011, she received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s most prestigious research award, for her research achievements in this field. Sadowski has been a member of RESOLV, the joint cluster of excellence of TU Dortmund University and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), since 2012: Her task within this research team is to investigate the role of solvents in chemical reactions as well as industrial and biological processes.


In addition, Sadowski is initiator and spokesperson of the new CALEDO research building currently under construction at TU Dortmund University, for which funds of € 72 million have been allocated. In the shape of CALEDO, the university is establishing a research center for the design of fluids for new and better technical processes and products that will have international visibility. Professor Sadowski also makes an active contribution to supporting early career researchers, e.g., in the framework of a mentoring program for female doctoral candidates in the engineering sciences. Furthermore, as Vice President Research she was part of TU Dortmund University’s management team from 2016 to 2020 and in this function worked on and actioned many topical research policy issues for TU Dortmund University.

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