Board of Directors

The joint interests of the institute as a whole are subject to the scientific and administrative management of the Board of Directors. The members of the Board of Directors select a Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of the institute who execute the daily affairs. The Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of the institute as a whole are simultaneously Managing Directors of their respective local institute site. The institute currently has seven directors.

Managing Director (Managing Director, Tübingen):

• Dr. Michael J. Black

Deputy Managing Director (Managing Director, Stuttgart):

• Dr. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Board of Directors

• Michael J. Black (Perceiving Systems, Tübingen)
• Siegfried Dietrich (Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter, Stuttgart)
• Katherine J. Kuchenbecker (Haptic Intelligence, Stuttgart)
• Stefan Schaal (Autonomous Motion, Tübingen)
• Bernhard Schölkopf (Empirical Inference, Tübingen)
• Gisela Schütz (Modern Magnetic Systems, Stuttgart)
• Metin Sitti (Physical Intelligence, Stuttgart)