Britta Padberg

Britta Padberg has been the Managing Director of the Center for interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung ZiF) since 2008. She is an biological anthropologist and historian by education and received her PhD at Göttingen University. In former positions she was concerned with fostering high-gifted students for the Cusanuswerk (Bonn) and with organizing the Excellence Initiative for the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat Köln).