Members of the Academic Advisory Board from 1981 to the present
- Hubert Curien, Paris (Cristallography)
1981 - 1983 - Yehuda Elkana, Jerusalem (history of science)
181 - 1987 - Brian Flowers, London (nuclear physics
1981 - 1983 - Kurt W. Forster, Stanford (art history)
1981 - 1983 - Philip Handler, Washington D.C. (biochemistry)
1981 - 1983 - Whelm A. Kewenig, Kiel (international law)
1981 - Walther Killy, Wolfenbüttel (German literature)
1981 - 1986 - Hubert Markl, Konstanz (biology)
1981 - 1986 - Christian Meier, Bochum (history)
1981 - 1984 - Fritz Scharpf, Berlin (political science)
1981 - 1983 - Jurij Striedter, Cambridge M.A. (Slavic languages)
1981 - 1983 - Harry Woolf, Princeton (history of science)
1981 - 1987 - Steven Muller, Washington D.C. (political science)
1981 - 1984 - Wolf Lepenies, Princeton/Berlin (sociology)
1982 - 1984 - Hermann Bondi, London (physics)
1982 - 1988 - Kurt Rothschild, Linz (economics)
1982 - 1988 - Rudolf Cohen, Konstanz (psychology)
1982 - 1988 - Lorenz Krüger, Berlin/Bielefeld (philosophy)
1982 - 1987 - Oskar Mahrenholz, Hannover (engeneeiring)
1982 - 1988 - Sigrid Peyerimhoff, Bonn (chemistry)
1982 - 1988 - René Thom, Bures-sur-Yvette (mathematics)
1982 - 1988 - Jochen Frowein, Heidelberg (law)
1982 - 1984 - Heinrich Ursprung, Zürich (biology)
1982 - 1987 - Willibald Sauerländer, München (art history)
1983 - 1989 - Ilya Prigogine, Brüssel (chemistry/physics)
1983 - 1986 - Reinhart Koselleck, Bielefeld (history)
1984 - 1987 - Shosaku Numa, Kyoto (biochemistry)
1984 - 1987 - Jürgen Aschoff, Andechs (behavioural psychology)
1985 - 1987 - Ralf Dahrendorf, London (sociology)
1986 - 1992 - Werner Maihofer, Florenz (law)
1986 - 1989 - Victor Urquidi, Mexico (economics)
1986 - 1989 - Norbert Miller, Berlin (German literature)
1987 - 1993 - Richard McKay Rorty, Charlottesville (philosophy)
1987 - 1990 - Rüdiger Wehner, Zürich (biology)
1987 - 1990 - Abraham Pais, New York (physics)
1987 - 1993 - Fritz Stern, New York (history)
1987 - 1993 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mainz (chemistry)
1988 - 1991 - Sudhir Kakar, Neu Delhi (psychology)
1988 - 1994 - Lea Ritter-Santini, Münster (comparative literature)
1988 - 1991 - Melitta Schachner, Heidelberg (neurobiology)
1988 - 1991 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, Bonn (mathematics)
1988 - 1994 - Thomas Gaehtgens, Berlin (art history)
1989 - 199hi - Dieter Grimm, Karlsruhe (law)
1989 - 1995 - Lutz Hoffmann, Berlin (economics)
1989 - 1995 - Karl Alexander Müller, Zürich (Informatics/Physics)
1989 - 1992 - Nancy Cartwright, London (philosophy)
1991 - 1996 - Martin Fontius, Berlin (Romance literature)
1991 - 1994 - Benno Parthier, Halle (biochemistry)
1991 - 1994 - Werner Stumm, Dübbendorf/Schweiz (chemistry)
1991 - 1994 - Klaus von Beyme, Heidelberg (political sciences)
1992 - 1998 - Horst Kern, Marburg (cellular biology)
1992 - 1998 - Peter Mathias, Cambridge (economic history)
1992 - 1998 - Philip Fisher, Cambridge M.A. (English literature)
1993 - 1999 - Hans A. Weidenmüller, Heidelberg (physics)
1993 - 1999 - Brian Stock, Toronto (history/comparative literatures)
1993 - 1999 - Robert Darnton, Princeton (history)
1994 - 2000 - Ashok V. Desai, Neu Delhi (economics)
1994 - 1997 - Rainer Münz, Berlin (social sciences/sociology)
1994 - 2000 - Hans Oeschger, Bern (physics)
1994 - 1997 - John R. Krebs, Swindon (biosciences)
1995 - 2001 - Janusz Reiter, Warschau (German literature/philosophy/sociology)
1995 - 2001 - László Sólyom, Budapest (law)
1995 - 2001 - Onora O'Neill, Cambridge (philosophy)
1996 - 2002 - Horst Bredekamp, Berlin (art history)
1997 - 2003 - Olaf Kübler, Zürich (theoretical physics/informatics)
1997 - 2003 - Gudrun Krämer, Berlin (Islamic literatures)
1998 - 2004 - Barry Eichengreen, Berkeley (economics)
1998 - 2000 - Peter Katzenstein, Ithaca (political sciences)
1998 - 2004 - Stephen Greenblatt, Cambridge M.A. (English literature)
1999 - 2001 - Christoph Markschies, Jena/Berlin (theology/ecclesiastical history)
1999 - 2005 - Jan-Michael Rost, Dresden (physics)
1999 - 2005 - Ian Baldwin, Jena (biosciences)
2000 - 2003 - Jacques Revel, Paris (history)
2000 - 2006 - Björn Wittrock, Uppsala (sociology)
2000 - 2006 - John Langbein, New Haven (law)
2001 - 2007 - Gerhard Neuweiler, München (zoology)
2001 - 2004 - Igor Aleksander, London (informatics)
2001 - 2004 - János Kornai, Cambridge M.A./Budapest (economics)
2001 - 2004 - Claudio Magris, Triest (German literature)
2001 - 2004 - Luca Giuliani, München (archeology)
2002 - 2007 - Lorraine Daston, Berlin (history of science)
2002 - 2008 - Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff, Karlsruhe (law)
2003 - 2009 - Gottfried Schatz, Bern (biochemistry)
2003 - 2005 - Heinrich Detering, Kiel/Göttingen (German literature)
2004 - 2010 - Herfried Münkler, Berlin (political sciences)
2004 - 2007 - Robert Pippin, Chicago (philosophy)
2004 - 2010 - Peter Stucki, Zürich (informatics)
2004 - 2010 - Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, Köln (economics)
2004 - 2010 - Ayse Çaglar, Budapest/Göttingen (sociology/social anthropology)
2005 - - Felix von Oppen, Berlin (physics)
2005 - - José Casanova, New York/Washington (Soziologie)
2006 - - Peter Gärdenfors, Lund (Kognitionswissenschaft)
2006 - - Roger Nitsch, Zürich (Molekulare Psychiatrie)
2006 - - Maria Todorova, Urbana-Champaign (Geschichte)
2006 - - Oliver Primavesi, München (Klassische Philologie)
2007 - - Kathleen Thelen, Evanston/Cambridge, M.A. (Politikwissenschaft)
2007 - - Elizabeth Jelin, Buenos Aires (Soziologie)
2008 - - Friederike Pannewick, Marburg (Arabistik)
2009 -
Members elected by the Board of Trustees
- Hellmut Becker, Berlin (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
1983 - 1993 - Paul Mikat, Bonn (former minister of Culture and Education)
1983 - 1987 - Wolf Jobst Siedler, Berlin (publisher)
1983 - 1993 - Heinrich Ursprung, Zürich (biologie)
1987 - 1995 - Peter Glotz, Erfurt/St. Gallen (journalism)
1998 - 2005