Martin Reichel

Before joining BayFOR, Reichel worked for eleven years at the Helmholtz Centre Munich, latterly as an authorised signatory and member of the extended management team, as well as head of the Legal & Technology Transfer Department. His career has also enabled him to gain considerable experience in the fields of scientific management and research funding.

Martin Reichel studied law from 1992 to 1997 at the University of Tübingen and completed his legal training at the Ravensburg Regional Court with the Second State Examination. He subsequently worked as a attorney-at-law from 1999 to 2000 with a Munich-based law-firm focusing on company law and intellectual property protection. From 2000 to 2011, Martin Reichel worked at the Helmholtz Centre Munich, a member of the Helmholtz Association the largest scientific organization in Germany From 2003, he headed the legal department and was appointed authorised signatory, head of the Law & Technology Transfer department and Member of the extended management team in 2006. In 2009, he also took on the role of Founding Managing Director at the Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung e.V. Since 2010 he has been on the Foundation Council of the Stiftung AtemWeg.