Since January 2022 Prof. Julia B. Bolles-Wilson is the president of the North Rhein-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste Nordrhein-Westfalen). She is the first woman to hold this position. The handover ceremony on 26^th of January took place in presence of the North-Rhine-Westphalia Minister Hendrik Wüst.

Julia B. Bolles-Wilson has been a member of the Academy’s Fine Arts class since 2008.

https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2022/01/27/feierliche-amtsuebergabe-ministerpraesident-wuest-gratuliert-julia-b-bolles-wilson-als-neuer-praesidentin-der-awknrw/

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