international research committees, among others: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Since 1996: Göttingen Academy of Sciences Since 1995: German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 1993–1997: President of the International Society of Developmental Biology Other organisations of which he is a member are: 2000–2002: President of the EMBL-Council (and German delegate from 1992 to 2000) 2003: Steering Committee of the "National Genome Research Network" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2008: "Council for Innovation and Growth" of the Federal Government References External links Homepage of Gruss at the Max Planck Society 1949 births Living people People from Alsfeld 20th-century German biologists German microbiologists Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Max Planck Society people Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 21st-century German biologists Max Planck Institute directors