The external research advisory board advises the university management on strategic research issues, in particular on the design of the research initiative. It is anchored as part of the quality assurance system in the corresponding partial basic regulations of the RPTU.
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel (Teaching, Learning and Instruction Research, Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Haist (Institute of Building Materials Science, Leibniz University Hannover)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Heilmaier (Institute for Applied Materials - Materials Science, KIT)
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel (Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million (Department of Urban Planning and Settlement, TU Berlin)
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde (Chair of Computer Science - Systems Simulation, FAU)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Schäffer (RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Environmental Biology and Chemodynamics)
- Prof. Dr. Roser Valenti (Institute for Theoretical Physics, GU Frankfurt)
- Prof. Dr. Christof Weinhardt (Institute for Information Economics and Marketing, KIT)