New directors of Ceres

22.12.2021 11:57

The former director of ceres, Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen, accepted a professorship at the University of Bonn on October 1, 2021, where she holds the first Heinrich Hertz Professorship in the transdisciplinary research area "Individuals, Institutions, and Societies." There, she is also leading the establishment and development of a new "Center for Life Ethics." Its coordination will be assumed by the former managing director of ceres, Dr. Björn Schmitz-Luhn. Several of the research projects they led and their teams will also be relocating to Bonn soon.

In addition to the key topics of health literacy and digitalization, gerontology has always formed an essential core of the research work of ceres. This will continue to be the case: With the two studies on very old people, „NRW 80+“ and „D80+“, as well as the graduate school „GROW“, there are already existing ceres Already lighthouse projects for researching quality of life in old age, so that the center is well positioned for further development into a leading center for social science and interdisciplinary aging research.

With Prof. Dr. Susanne Zank A renowned expert in aging research will lead this development as the designated director of ceres supervise. She heads the Chair of Rehabilitation Gerontology and is Director of the Center for Special Education Gerontology at the University of Cologne. Since the founding of ceres She represented the Faculty of Human Sciences and served as spokesperson for the thematic focus area "Aging and Demographic Change" on the Directorate. Since 2020, Prof. Zank has been one of the two deputy directors of the center. Another deputy director was appointed... Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner elected. He heads the Chair of Sociology IV at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences.