Applications to set up Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes following the call for proposals are selected on the basis of expert opinions by an independent jury and submitted to the Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft for its decision.

The jury currently comprises the following members:

University Professor DI Dr. h.c. Leopold März (Chairman)
Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences of Vienna

Prof. Dr. med. Guido Adler
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Medicine at the University of Ulm

Prof. Dr. Lydia Haustein
Free University of Berlin

DI Dr. Sabine Herlitschka, MBA
Head of European and International Programmes at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Vienna

Dr. Ruediger Klein
Senior Science Officer in Humanities at the European Science Foundation and Executive Director at the European Federation of National Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), Amsterdam

Dr. Bernd Pulverer
Editor Nature Cell Biology, London

Dr. Michael Stampfer
Head of the Head Office of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Vienna