The Max Rubner Institute is undergoing change
Process of reorganising
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The Max Rubner Institute is undergoing change
The process of reorganising the Max Rubner Institute is progressing. The new institutional structure will create the conditions for optimal networking between the various areas of work, even more effective research and, consequently, the best possible policy advice. The nine institutes and one centre will be reorganised into five institutes and two centres (see diagram). The changes have already begun internally and will be implemented gradually. Research work will, of course, continue as normal.
Max Rubner
Max Rubner (1854–1932), a physician and physiologist, was the father of modern nutrition science in Germany. A professor of hygiene at Marburg from 1887, he was appointed professor and director of the Hygiene Institute in Berlin in 1891, succeeding Robert Koch. From 1909 to 1922, he taught physiology there and established the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Arbeits-physiologie (Institute of Occupational Physiology). With his experimental work on the energy content of nutrients, Max Rubner laid the foundations for today’s caloric tables. He also focused his attention on energy balance, a field of great relevance to this day.