Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan (Chair), University of Hamburg

Dr. Nicola Aust (Deputy Chair), BASF SE, Ludwigshafen

Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm, Humboldt University of Berlin

Prof. Dr. Kai Exner, University of Duisburg-Essen

Dr. Christoph Gütz, Saltigo GmbH, Leverkusen

Dr. Rüdiger Schweiss, SGL Carbon GmbH, Meitingen

Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschuli k, Ruhr University Bochum

Dr. Katja Weichert, Covestro Deutschland AG, Leverkusen

Regular guests of the board
Alena Neudert, University of Bayreuth (student representative)
Jonathan Amara, ETH Zurich (student representative)

The term of office of the board of the GDCh Division of Electrochemistry ends on December 31, 2026, and you as members of the Division are called upon to nominate candidates for the board election.

 

• have declared their willingness to stand for election,
• Members of the Division are and
• have the support of at least eight members of the Division.

According to the bylaws of the Division , the Board consists of a maximum of eight members (1 Chair, 1 Deputy Chair, and a maximum of 6 additional members), each elected for a term of four years. Universities and industry should be equally represented on the board. One re-election is permitted.

After two terms, Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan is ineligible to run for another term. Prof. Philipp Adelhelm and Dr. Christoph Gütz are also not available for another term. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all of them for their many years of dedicated and successful service to the Division and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) as a whole.

Dr. Nicola Aust, Prof. Dr. Kai Exner, Dr. Rüdiger Schweiß, Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik and Dr. Katja Weichert have signaled their willingness to run for re-election.

For the maximum of eight board positions up for election, the current Board submits the following eight proposals within the two areas to be represented, in addition to your nominations:

University/Research Institution

industry

If no written proposals for the nomination of further candidates are received by the GDCh Office ( for the attention of Maike Fries; m.fries@gdch.de ) by June 1, 2026, the election will take place from June 15, 2026.   carried out with the persons listed above.

Dr. Claudia Weidlich (Chair), DECHEMA eV, Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Jürgen Kintrup (Deputy Chair), Covestro Deutschland AG, Leverkusen
Dr. Frank Baumann, Robert-Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
Dr. Sigmar Bräuninger, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
Dr. habil. Constanze Donner, Atotech Deutschland GmbH, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Hubert A. Gasteiger, Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Mehtap Özaslan, Technical University of Braunschweig
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christina Roth, University of Bayreuth