The seven institutes under the umbrella of the Forschungsverbund have a Joint Administration, based in Berlin-Adlershof. In addition, each institute has a local administration team. All administrative staff form the FVB Administration.
Dr. Nicole Münnich has been engaged as Managing Director of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) since December 2021. Until then, she headed the “Universities, Scientific Centers, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence” unit and was Deputy Head of the Science and Research Department at the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the Federal State of Brandenburg for six years. Prior to that, she worked more than five years in various positions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her roles included Chief of Staff of the President’s Office, Advisor to the Vice President for Finance, Human Resources and Operations, and Head of the Excellence Initiative staff unit. As part of her doctorate in history at Leipzig University, she was a fellow at the Transatlantic Research Training Group Berlin / New York, which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).