Primary Job Title President Primary Organization Max Planck Society
Gender Male
Peter Gruss has been President of the Max Planck Society since 2002. He became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society in 1986, when he was appointed as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. He earned his PhD in biology at the University of Heidelberg and is honorary professor at the University of
Göttingen.
Peter Gruss began his scientific career as a research assistant at the Institute for Virus Research in Heidelberg in 1977. From there, he moved on to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, initially as a post-doc associate, and later as an expert consultant. In 1982, he was appointed as Professor at the Institute for Microbiology at the University of Heidelberg.
As President of the Max Planck Society, Peter Gruss holds numerous offices and functions. Among others, he is a member of the Senates of the Alliance of Scientific Organizations in Germany, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, as well as of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering.
In addition, he is member of the Supervisory Boards of Siemens AG and Munich RE, as well as of the Advisory Board of Deloitte. He was appointed as a member of the Innovation Dialogue of the Federal Chancellery by Angela Merkel.
