Heidrun Mollenkopf has been Board Member of the German National Association of Senior Citizens' Organisations (BAGSO) since 2014 and was Vice-President of AGE Platform Europe until 2021. Since 2016, she represents BAGSO regularly at the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing at the UN in New York.  In 2019, she has been appointed to the office of the Standing Working Group on Ageing (SWGA) at the UNECE in Geneva as the representative of civil society.
  
Heidrun Mollenkopf has a background in sociology and gerontology. She was Senior Researcher at the German Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Heidelberg until she retired in December 2004. Her main research focus was the interplay among personal, societal, technical, and environmental conditions regarding maintaining autonomy and social participation and, by this, quality of life in old age. She has pursued this interest in several large-scale research projects on technology and ageing and on the outdoor mobility of older persons and has published widely in these fields.