Tim Fuchs will take over as head of the DAkkS Accreditation Service on 1 September 2026. He has been working at German Accreditation Body (DAkkS) since March 2023 and brings with him extensive experience in accreditation services as well as in-depth knowledge of the accreditation system. He succeeds Ina Stubenrauch.

New leadership for the Accreditation Service

On 1 September 2026, Tim Fuchs will take over as Head of the DAkkS Accreditation Service. He succeeds Ina Stubenrauch, who led the Accreditation Service from its establishment in 2022 until her retirement at the end of 2025.

„I am very much looking forward to this new role and the responsibility that comes with it. My aim is to further develop the Accreditation Service together with my colleagues and to place an even stronger focus – both internally and externally – on the ‚service’ aspect of the department’s name. Good communication with the technical departments and, above all, with our clients is particularly important to me. Together with them, I want to help continuously improve processes within the Accreditation Service and further strengthen DAkkS as a modern and efficient accreditation body. In my view, good solutions emerge where technical expertise, efficient processes and continuous dialogue come together“, emphasises Tim Fuchs, Head of the Accreditation Service.

Experience in laboratory practice and quality management

Tim Fuchs has been working at DAkkS since March 2023. Before joining DAkkS, the Berlin native worked, among other things, in research and development and as a lecturer and laboratory manager in beverage analysis and sensory analysis. As a quality management officer and lead assessor for a leading international quality competition, he gained experience at the interface between technical competence, quality management and quality assessment.

Since joining DAkkS, he has headed up Service Unit AS 2. In this role, he has gained extensive knowledge of supporting and managing accreditation cases and became familiar with DAkkS’s structures and processes through close collaboration with the technical units.

In his new role, Tim Fuchs is responsible for the Accreditation Service and thus for a key area concerning the implementation and further development of accreditation cases.

About the Accreditation Service

The Accreditation Service supports the technical departments, amongst other things, in processing and managing accreditation procedures and thus contributes to efficient and reliable processes within the accreditation system. It brings together strategic and supporting tasks relating to accreditation and is responsible for various services accompanying DAkkS accreditation activities.

These include the coordination of centrally managed accreditation cases, the Application Service, New Client Support and the International Contact Point, the Competence Centre for Standards and Regulatory Affairs and Committee Coordination, Scheme Evaluation and Product Development, the DAkkS Academy, as well as Technical Cooperation and International Partnerships.