Foundation and Board of Trustees

The institute is a non-profit foundation under civil law with the purpose of taking up results from basic research and putting them to commercial use. The board of the foundation is at the same time the director of the institute. A board of trustees acts as a supervisory body, and its high-caliber membership is evidence of the NMI's partnership with politics, research and industry.

• Prof. Dr. Katja Schenke-Layland, Chairwoman of the Executive Board
• Dr. Thomas Joos, full-time deputy member of the Executive Board
• Prof. Dr. Matthias Schwab, first deputy member of the Executive Board
• Dr. Dirk Biskup, CeGaT GmbH, Tübingen, second deputy member of the Executive Board

• Dr. Wolfgang Epp, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, IHK Reutlingen
• Prof. Dr. Eberhart Zrenner, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Tübingen
• Dr. Michelangelo Masini, Head of Corporate Research and Technology, Carl Zeiss AG
• Prof. Dr. Michael Auer, Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Development, Stuttgart
• Dr. Georg Bischopink, Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen
• Dr. Dr. Saskia Biskup, CeGaT GmbH, Tübingen
• Dr. Dirk Grafahrend, Hemateq AG, Würselen
• Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg
• Thomas Keck, Lord Mayor of the City of Reutlingen,
• Deputy Roland Wintzen, Mayor of Finance and Economic Affairs of the City of Reutlingen
• Prof. Dr. Petra Kluger, Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences
• Dr. Andreas Leusch, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach
• Dr. André Schmandke, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Pichler, Dean, Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen
• Prof. Dr. Karla Pollmann, Rector, University of Tübingen
• Deputy Prof. Dr. Peter Gratwohl, Prorector, University of Tübingen
• Prof. Dr. Thilo Stehle, University of Tübingen
• Dr. Katrin Sternberg, CeramTec, Plochingen