Consulting and Refereeing
Ralf has acted as consultant on science management and scientific topics for a range of companies, politicians/political parties, religious leaders/church organisations, media organisations, and government institutions.
Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg), Germany:
Since 2016 |
Consultant on Technology Transfer & Start-up Projects
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State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany:
Since 2017 |
Member of the Arbeitskreis Transferinitiative RLP, an initiative by the Stiftung für Innovation Rheinland-Pfalz
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Since 2017 |
Member of the Bioethics Commission of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland:
Since 2018 |
External Examiner of the Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Thinking, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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Innovative Training Network (ITN) “ImageInLife”:
Since 2016 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
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Moreover, he has been a referee for science funding bodies and institutions, in
- Europe, e.g. the European Commission, as well as the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, the Belgian FRO, the Telethon Foundation for Biomedical Research and the University of Trento in Italy, the Science Ministry of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, and the BBSRC and the Wellcome Trust in the UK
- the USA, e.g. the National Science Foundation (NSF)
- and beyond, e.g. the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, and the Department of Science & Technology of the Government of India
He also acted as referee for international scientific journals, including among others Nature Methods, Current Biology, Human Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, and the Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine.