The Scientific Advisory Board consists of internationally recognized scientists and serves to ensure the appropriate and effective use of the financial funding. The Board meets every two or three years and reports to the President of the Max Planck Society.

The Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry:

• Prof. Dr. Edouard Bard, Climate and Ocean Evolution, Collège de France, France (2017-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Lucy Carpenter FRSC, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, United Kingdom (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Christian George, IRCELYON, CNRS-University of Lyon 1, France (2023-2028)
• Prof. Dr. Colette Heald, ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Switzerland (2023-2028)
• Prof. Dr. Dwayne Heard, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (2023-2028)
• Prof. Dr. Maria Kanakidou, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Herkalion, Greece (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Markku Kulmala, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA (2023-2028)
• Prof. Dr. Kimberly Prather, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Akkihebbal Ramaiah Ravishankara, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. Paul Wennberg, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA (2020-2025)
• Prof. Dr. James Zachos, PBSci-Earth &Planetary Science Department, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (2017-2025)