Committees

Scientific consulting is provided by the Scientific Advisory Board that covers all relevant disciplines of research at IfADo. The committee meets annually in IfADo and provides comments to the Board of Trustees. Additional, every seven years the committed, competent and widely diversified Advisory Board conducts a scientific controlling (internal audit) and in this way provides an external quality check.

Members

• Prof. Dr. med. Agnes Flöel (Chair)
  Department of Neurology at the University Medicine of Greifswald
• Prof. Dr. David Hay
  University of Edinburgh – MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine
• Dr. Ute Hofmann
  Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Department oder Analytical Chemistry and Synthesis
• Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kunde
  Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg – Department of Psychology III
• Prof. Dr. med. Tanja Lange
  University Schleswig-Holstein, Department Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
• Prof. Dr. Marcel Leist
  University Konstanz – In-vitro Toxicology & Biomedicine
• Prof. Dr. John Rothwell
  UCL Institute of Neurology – Physiology and Pathophysiology of Human Motor Control
• Prof. Dr. Uta Wilkens
  Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institute of Work Sciences, Chair for Work, Human Resources and Leadership
• Dr. Anja Zeigerer
  Helmholtz Center Munich, Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Division Endocytosis and Metabolism

The Board of Trustees supervises all scientific, programmatic and economic matters of the sponsoring association of the institute (Registered Society ‘Forschungsgesellschaft für Arbeitsphysiologie und Arbeitsschutz e.V., Dortmund’, Society for Occupational Physiology and Occupational Safety). It has the task to advise the executive Board of Directors and to give impulses for the strategy of IfADo. The members of the Board of Trustees are partly appointed and partly selected scientists and representatives of the state and federal government as well as the trade unions and employers’ associations.

Board of Trustees Chairmen

• Prof. Dr. Dirk Biermann (Chairman)
  Technical University Dortmund – Institute for Machining Production
• Prof. Dr. Katja Ickstadt (Deputy Chairman)
  Technical University Dortmund – Department of Statistics, Mathematical Statistics and Biometric Applications

Appointed members of the Board of Trustees entitled to vote

• Dr. Christoph Serries
  for Federal Republic of Germany
  represented by Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), Unit IIIb2 – Fundamental issues of occupational safety and health, Berlin
• Dr. Nicola Hülskamp
  for North Rhine-Westphalia
  represented by Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW), Unit 313 – Joint Federal Promotion, Duesseldorf
• Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer (Rector)
  for Technical University Dortmund
• Prof. Dr. Sascha Stowasser (Director)
  for Federal Association of German Employers‘ Associations (BDA) represented by Institute for Applied Labour Science e.V., Düsseldorf (ifaa)
• Uwe Meyeringh
  for United Services Trade Union (ver.di ) Federal administration, Berlin
• Charlotte Reineke
  for Industry Trade Union Mining, Chemistry, Energy (IGBCE), Hannover
• Dr. Jörg Weingarten
  for German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Department of Industrial and Structural Policy, Digitalisation, NRW, Düsseldorf

Elected members of the Board of Trustees entitled to vote

• Prof. Sigrid Elsenbruch
  Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Dr. Peter Herter
  Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

In 1969, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Länder Government), Max Planck Society, German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA), University of Dortmund, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Dortmund (IHK), City of Dortmund and the United Services Trade Union (ver.di, federal administration) founded the sponsoring association of IfADo: the Forschungsgesellschaft für Arbeitsphysiologie und Arbeitsschutz e.V. Dortmund

Currently, the General Meeting comprises representatives of 12 stakeholders.

Members of the Registered Association:

• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
  Deputy: Dr. Christoph Serries
• Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW)
  Deputy: Dr. Michael H. Wappelhorst (Unit 313, Joint Federal Promotion, Duesseldorf)
• German Trade Union Confederation (DGB)
  Deputy: Dr. Jörg Weingarten (Head of University Policiy, DGB-NRW)
• Technical University Dortmund
  Deputy: Prof. Dr. Manfred Bayer (Rector)
• City of Dortmund
  Deputy: Angela Märtin (Science Officer)
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Dortmund (IHK)
  Deputy: Stefan Schreiber (CEO)
• Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG)
  represented by Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
  Deputy: Dr. Peter Herter (Research Coordinator MPI Dortmund)
• Federal Association of German Employers‘ Associations (BDA)
  represented by Institute for Applied Labor Science e.V., Duesseldorf (ifaa)
  Deputy: Prof. Dr. Sascha Stowasser (Director)
• THYSSEN Krupp Steel Europe AG
  Deputy: Dr. med. Jörg Augustin (Leiter Occupational Safety and Health OSH)
• German Trade Union Confederation (DGB, North Rhine Westfalia)
  Deputy: Jutta Reiter (Chair DBG City Association Dortmund)
• Industry Trade Union Mining, Chemistry, Energy (IGBCE), Hannover
  Deputy: Stefan Weis (Head of Labour Policy Department)
• United Services Trade Union (ver.di ), Federal District North Rhine Westfalia
  Deputy: Uwe Meyeringh

The ethics commission observes the rules and ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects based on the revised World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki. The commission and its members act autonomously and are not bound by any directive. The commission supports IfADo scientists by offering advice and by evaluating ethical and legal aspects of their experimental designs concerning humans.

Members:

• Michael Falkenstein, Prof. em. Dr. med. (Head of ethics commission), Aging
• Barbara Griefahn, Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. med. (Deputy head of ethics commission), Chronobiology
• Thomas Behrens, Prof. Dr. med., Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV)
• Gerlinde Schlicker, Dr. jur., Head of administration, TU Dortmund, Dezernat 1
• Michael C. Truß, Prof. Dr. med., Chairman of Department of Urology at Klinikum Dortmund

The appointed ombudsperson at IfADo is Dr. Christoph van Thriel. PD Dr. Silvia Capellino is the appointed deputy ombudsperson. The ombudsperson’s mandate is to advise and assist scientists and scholars in questions of good scientific practice and its impairment through scientific dishonesty.

The Leibniz Association has established standards of good scientific practice, definitions of misconduct and the role and authority of the association’s central Ombuds Committee in its Guidelines for Good Scientific Practice.