Bodies of the Heracles-Hebe Foundation of the Danube Private University

Honorary President

Dr. h. c. Karl von Habsburg
Honorary President of the Heracles-Hebe Foundation of the Danube Private University
Former Member of the European Parliament

Board of Directors

Prof. h. c. Marga B. Wagner-Pischel
Founder and Chairwoman of the Heracles-Hebe Foundation of the Danube Private University
President and CEO, Danube Private University GmbH

Prof. Dr. Hossam Haick
Head of the Doctoral Program “Precision and Personalized Medicine“ at DPU
Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Prof. DI Dr. Christoph Kleber
Head of Research and Development at DPU
Head of Research Department Chemistry and Physics of Materials at DPU
Scientific Director of the Doctoral Programme in Dental Medicine (PhD) at DPU

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Maio, MA
Director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig
University of Freiburg
Visiting lecturer at DPU

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Nicole Nicklisch
Anthropologist at the Center for Natural and Cultural History of Man at DPU
Deputy Chairwoman of the Foundation

Hon.-Prof. (DPU) Prof. Dr. Axel R. Pries, MD
Vice-Rector for Human Medicine at DPU
Director of the Centre for Physiology at DPU
President of the World Health Summit

Robert Wagner, MA
Director of Strategic University Planning, Management and Science at DPU

Supervisory Board

Stefanie Arco-Zinneberg, MA
Director of Marketing and Management at DPU

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Peter Engel
Head of the Biosciences Center and Chairman of the Senate at DPU

Ass.-Prof. Dr. med. dent. Pascal Grün
Head of the Implantology Department at DPU

Honorary Members

Harald Cerny
Former Austrian soccer player (long-time player at TSV 1860 Munich) and current soccer coach

Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse
Former track and field athlete and university professor for prevention and rehabilitation in sports at the German Sport University Cologne

Andreas Herzog
Former Austrian soccer player and current coach (Austria’s most-capped player with 103 caps)

Dr. med. dent. Christoph Karlsböck
Alumnus of the Danube Private University

Prof. Dr. Karl-Josef Kuschel
Theologian, author, literary scholar
President of the International Hermann Hesse Society

His Eminence Dr. Franz Lackner
Archbishop of Salzburg

Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Macho
Former Director of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna

Roger Claude Maibach
CEO & Chairman of the Board, Constance Grimaud SA

Prof. Dr. Michael Maul
Musicologist
Author and Director of the Leipzig Bach Festival

Johanna Mikl-Leitner
Governor of Lower Austria

Prof. Julian Prégardien
Lyric Tenor, University of Music and Theatre, Munich

Prof. Rüdiger Safranski
Literary Scholar
Philosopher and Writer

Dr. Harald Schlögel
President of the Medical Association of Lower Austria

His Excellency Dr. Alois Schwarz
Bishop of the Diocese of St. Pölten

Stefan Szczesny
Protagonist of the New Wild Painting

Arianna Tricomi
Three times Ski Freeride World Champion and Red Bull Athlete

Prof. Dr. Otmar D. Wiestler
President of the Helmholtz Association

Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Kurt W. Alt
Anthropologist
Director of the Centre for Natural and Cultural Human History at DPU
Vice-Dean of Dentistry at DPU
Scientific Director of the Doctoral Program in Dentistry (PhD) at DPU

Prof. Dr. Dr. Rüdiger Junker, MSc FDS RCSEd
Dean of Dental Medicine at DPU
Director of the Center for Dental Prosthetics and Biomaterials at DPU
Medical Director of the Dental Clinic Krems of the DPU

Hon.-Prof. (DPU) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll
Former Board Member of the Austrian Institute of Technology
Scientific Advisor to the DPU

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dennis Ladage
Chief Physician for Pneumology, Maria Hilf Clinics, Mönchengladbach
Sports Scientist
Scientific Director of the Human Medicine Program at DPU

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Uwe Martens
Chief Physician, Department of Internal Medicine III: Hematology, Oncology, Palliative Medicine, Klinikum am Gesundbrunnen Hospital, Heilbronn
Chairman of the Board of the Baden-Württemberg Cancer Association
Vice Dean for Teaching/ Human Medicine at DPU

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Dieter Müßig
Rector and Director of the Centre for Orthodontics at DPU

Dr. József Constantin Széles
Specialist in Surgery, specializing in Vascular Medicine, Wound Surgery and Special Pain Therapy

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ines C. Weber
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg

Hon.-Prof. (DPU) Dr. Jochen P. Zoller, MBA
Founder and Managing Partner of Tentamus Group GmbH, Berlin

Scientific Advisory Board

Mag. Dr. Alice Alsch-Harant
Deputy Director – Parliament
Secretary General of the Austrian Parliamentary Society

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Mag. Dipl.oec.med. Jürgen Brunner
Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatologist, Medical University of Innsbruck
Professor of Pediatrics at DPU

Mag. Klaus Hartmann
Head of the Federal Disciplinary Authority, Federal Chancellery

MMag. Dr. Stefan Huber, LL. M.
Lawyer for higher education law, Cerha Hempel Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Prof. Dr. Axel Jubel
Chief Physician of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Eduardus Hospital Cologne
Professor of Trauma Surgery at DPU

Dr. Erich Kny
Materials Scientist
Deputy Head of the Research and Development Department at DPU

Prof. Dr. Katja Lotz
Head of Research and Bachelor‘s Program in Personalized Nutrition, Faculty of Health, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University
Guest Lecturer at DPU

Mario Neuner
Sports Scientist and Trainer in Neuroathletics

Prof. Dr. Heike Rebholz
Biochemist at the Institute de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences de Paris (IPNP)
Guest Lecturer at DPU

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schütz
Managing Partner and Scientific Director of BIOVIS Diagnostik MVZ GmbH, Limburg

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Christoph Türp, MSc MA
Deputy Head of the Department of Oral Health & Medicine, University Center for Dentistry Basel
Guest Lecturer at DPU

Prof. François Valentiny
Architect

Sebastian Witte
Studied History of Natural Sciences,
Editor at the Science Magazine GEO

Prim. Ass.-Prof. Dr. Christian Wunsch
Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, University Hospital Neunkirchen
Assistant Professor at DPU

Friend of the Foundation

Toni Mörwald
Star Chef and Entrepreneur

General Secretary

Ao. Prof. (PTH) Mag. Dr. phil. Friedrich Schipper
Personal Assistant to Prof. h. c. Marga B. Wagner-Pischel