Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recently welcomed Liane G. Benning and her colleagues from the German Science and Humanities Council to Bellevue Palace in Berlin. The reception took place during the Council's winter meeting. Among other things, this highest German body for science policy advice also adopted a future agenda for Germany’s research environment titled “Science in Germany – Perspectives until 2040”.
Liane G. Benning has been a member of the German Science and Humanities Council for two years. Its members are appointed by Germany’s President based on nominations from the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society, the German Rectors’ Conference, the Helmholtz Association, the Fraunhofer Society, and the Leibniz Association.
About the person
The geochemist Liane G. Benning has been heading the “Interface Geochemistry” section at the GFZ since 2014. She has been a professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2016. Previous stages of her scientific career included ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Pennsylvania State University in the USA, and the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research focusses on extremophile microbes on glaciers and in snow, mineral formation and breakdown and microscopic characterization of geo-bio-materials. Her team and her conduct research in the laboratory but also in polar settings like Greenland.
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