Prof. em. Dr. Jörg Schmidtke (until 09/2007)
Institute for Human Genetics, Hannover Medical School 
 
Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang van den Daele (until 04/2008)
WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Department of civil society and transnational networks
 
Prof. Dr. Karl Sperling* (until 04/2010)
Institute for Human Genetics, Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin
 
Prof. Dr. Anna M. Wobus* (until 12/2010)
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
 
Prof. Dr. Nediljko Budisa (until 02/2015)
Institute of Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin
 
Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger* (until 02/2015)
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
 
Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Hilger Ropers* (until 12/2018)
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin
 
Prof. Dr. Dr. Kristian Köchy (until 12/2018)
Institute of Philosophy, University of Kassel
 
Prof. Dr. Bernd Müller-Röber* (until 6/2019)
Department of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam
* Ordinary member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.