Dr Doris Meder is the new acting Administrative Director of the BIH

On 1 March 2024, Dr Doris Meder, Head of Strategic Science Management and BIH Core Facilities, also took over the role of Administrative Director of the BIH on an interim basis. Dr Michael Frieser, who had held the role of Administrative Director at BIH since September 2021, moved to Helmholtz Munich as Administrative Director on 1 March 2024.

With his extensive and long-standing expertise in science administration and public administration, he made a decisive contribution to the BIH from September 2021 to February 2024. The BIH staff would like to express their sincere thanks for his extraordinary commitment and wish him all the best for his exciting new tasks in Munich.

The new Acting Administrative Director of the BIH, Doris Meder, is a biochemist and did her doctorate on the mechanisms of cell polarity in epithelial cells. Before joining the BIH in 2017, she worked in grant management at ETH Zurich, in technology transfer and scientific coordination at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden (MPI-CBG), established the Core Facilities Program of the Centre of Genomics Regulation in Barcelona and headed the Office of the Managing Director at the MPI-CBG as well as the establishment of the Center for Systems Biology Dresden.