Director General

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger
Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
W3 Professor at the Institute for Geosciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Volker Mosbrugger, who is Director General of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research since 2005, manages the operational business of the Society together with the Direktorium. The declared aim is to make a visible contribution by overcoming the great challenges of the
Anthropocene with the help of the holistic geobiodiversity research that is laid down in the research programme. Around 950 Senckenberg employees from 40 nations work on complex research topics, on knowledge transfer and in science-supporting areas at the eleven locations of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in Germany using state-of-the-art methods.
Volker Mosbruggers research interests include biodiversity and environmental research, the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems, terrestrial palaeoclimate research, the evolution and construction of plants/vegetation development, and earth system management.