 Hans-Joachim Gehrke was President of the Institute from March 2008 to April 2011, and has been succeeded by .In 2015 the leading Egyptologist Zahi Hawass criticised the German Archaeological Institute for its use of ground penitrating radar at the site of Gobleki Tepi, stating "No matter the radar showed nothing, I don't believe in radar, I have been using radar in all my work and it never made any discovery".It is generally accepted that the German Archaeological Institute's work in ground penitrating radar is of archeological significance.