Professor Angelika Epple (Head of Selection Committee)
Professor of General History at Bielefeld University since 2008 and Rector of Bielefeld University since October 2023.
Professor of Public Law, German and International Social Law and Comparative Law at Bielefeld University since 1998. 2011-2015 Managing Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF).
Professor Giovanni Galizia (and here)
Professor of Neurobiology and Zoology at the University of Konstanz, Director of the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, responsible for the feature section, and former university assistant to Niklas Luhmann at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.
Pit Clausen
Since 2009 Lord Mayor of Bielefeld.
Jennifer Erdmann
Since 2025 chairwoman of the board of Sparkasse Bielefeld and its foundation.