NEWS! SCIoI PI Ralph Hertwig appointed scientific expert of the German government’s Covid19 commission

As reported on Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (www.rnd.de), the new federal government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has set up a council of scientific experts to address the Covid19 pandemic.The  expert commission includes, among others, well known chief virologist at the Charité Christian Drosten, Hendrik Streeck (head of the Virological Institute at the University Hospital in Bonn), Lothar Wieler (head of the Robert Koch Institute), and Thomas Mertens, (head of the Permanent Vaccination Commission), while the “interdisciplinary expert council” includes, next to other notable names, Science of Intelligence PI Ralph Hertwig, who is also Director of the Research Area Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Here is the full list of experts:

Expert commission 

• Christian Drosten, chief virologist at Charité hospital
• Hendrik Streeck, head of the virology institute at Uniklinik, Bonn
• Thomas Mertens, head of the Permanent Vaccination Commission
• Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute
• Melanie Brinkmann, virologist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung
• Alena Buyx, head of the German Ethics Council (Deutschen Ethikrates)
• Viola Priesemann, physicsts at Max Planck Institute
• Christian Karagiannidis, intensive care physician from the Deutschen Interdisziplinären Vereinigung für Intensiv- und Notfallmedizin
• Ralph Hertwig, Director of the Research Area Adaptive Rationality at  Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin
• Reinhard Berner, head of the Paediatrics Clinic at Uniklinik Dresden
• Cornelia Betsch, Professor for healthcare communication at Universität Erfur
• Jörg Dötsch, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin
• Christine Falk, President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie
• Ralph Hertwig, Director of the Research Area Adaptive Rationality at  Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin
• Lars Kaderali, Institut für Bioinformatik der Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
• Hayo Kroemer, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Berliner Charité
• Michael Meyer-Herrmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung)
• Johannes Niessen, Head of the Gesundheitsamt Köln
• Leif Erik Sander, head of the research group for immunology and vaccination research, Charité
• Stefan Sternberg (Ludwigslust-Parchim)