Executive Board

President

Daniel Göske, born in Lüneburg in 1960, studied English and German at Göttingen, the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and the Pennsylvania State University, USA. After his PhD he spent two years at Princeton as a Visiting Fellow with the English Department. Following his Habilitation at Göttingen, he became Professor for American Studies at the Technical University at Braunschweig and, in 2001, at Kassel University. His research focusses on 19th and 20th century literature in English, literary translation, transnational reception studies, and the connections between literature and religion. He is a full member of the German Academy of Language and Literature and the Academy of the Sciences and Humanities at Göttingen and corresponding member of the Academy at Mayence.

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Vice president

Andrea Polle was born in Lastrup (Emsland). She studied biology at the University of Cologne and completed her doctorate at the University of Osnabrück. She worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research (Garmisch-Partenkirchen branch of the KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and after four years there moved to the University of Freiburg, where she completed a post-doctoral qualification in 1995. Her field of study is the molecular stress physiology of tress. With her research group, she investigates the adaptation mechanisms of trees and their associated microorganisms to climate change. She has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy since 2006 and has served on numerous committees of the University of Göttingen and the German Research Foundation, as well as working as an advisor at non-university institutions.

 

Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Theaterstraße 7
37073 Göttingen

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Vizepräsident

Jens Peter Laut, born in 1954 in Hanover, is teaching as Professor for Turkology and Central Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. He studied Religious Studies, Indology and Turkology at the Universities of Göttingen, Marburg and Gießen. Today he is considered an expert on the pre-Islamic (Buddhist, Manichaean, Christian) and early Islamic Turkic language and culture in Central Asia, Kemalism, language reform in Turkey and modern Turkish literature. From 2003 to 2008 he was First Executive Director of the German Oriental Society and from 2009 to 2011 also its Second Chairman. From 2003 to 2010, he edited the "Türkische Bibliothek", an anthology of modern Turkish literature, with Erika Glassen (University of Freiburg). From 2009 to 2016, he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Orient Institute in Istanbul. He has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy since 2010.

Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Theaterstraße 7
37073 Göttingen

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