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. Stephan Habscheid (Applied Linguistics, German Studies, University of Siegen)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Haist (Institute of Building Materials Science, Leibniz University Hannover)
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel (Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg)
- Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok (Deaprtment of Methmatics, LMU Munich)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million (Department of Urban Planning and Settlement, TU Berlin)
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf (Metallic Materials, University of Kassel)
- 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)