Organizational Structure of PIK
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Board of Directors:
Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE (Director)
Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer (Deputy Director)
Assistant Director: Prof. Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe
Executive Staff
Head of Executive Staff:
Dr. Jörg Pietsch
Scientific Coordination:
Dr. Ingo Bräuer
Administration
Head of Administration:
Frauke Haneberg (temporary)
Public Relations/Webservice: Patrick Eickemeier, Uta Pohlmann, Saskia Lubrich
PIK was founded in 1992 and is a non-profit organization. The constitutional organs are the General Meeting, the Board of Trustees, the Management Board and the Scientific Advisory Board. PIK currently has 250 employees.
Members of the Board of Trustees
Members of the Scientific Advisory Board
PIK is a member of the Leibniz Association and funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal State of Brandenburg in about equal shares. In 2009, the institute received circa 8.6 million Euro institutional funding and 1.4 million Euro from the German Federal Government's economic stimulus packages I and II. Additional project funding from external sources amounted to 8.2 million Euro.
Research at PIK is organized in four interdisciplinary Research Domains. The Executive Staff, Administration and IT-Services support the scientific activities.
Research Domains:
Earth System Analysis
Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities
Sustainable Solutions
Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods
