Structure

Research profiles

The IPM makes a long-standing and significant contribution to the acquisition of economic and public third-party funding for the HSZG. The experimental infrastructure of the IPM is well equipped with the laboratories

  • Zittau power plant laboratory,
  • thermohydraulics laboratory,
  • magnetic bearing laboratory,
  • combustion laboratory and
  • human-robot interaction (MRI)

and represents a truly unique selling point in the research focus on energy and the environment in the breadth covered by the specialist areas. The IPM's research activities focus on the following areas

  • Basic research,
  • publicly funded third-party research,
  • commercially funded third-party research and
  • research cooperation with basic units of the HSZG and other institutions (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Helmholtz Association, etc.).

The Institute's activities are categorized into the following four specialist areas:

Organizational chart

Overview of the professorships

  • Measurement technology/process automation (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch)
  • Control and regulation technology (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kästner)
  • Project planning of automation and mechatronic systems (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Worlitz)
  • Power Plant and Energy Technology (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Zschunke)

Participation of professors in committees

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch

  • Rector of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kästner

  • Research representative of the F-EI faculty
  • Member of the HSZG Senate
  • Participation in various appointment committees

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Worlitz

  • Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • International Representative of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Study Commission Mechatronics
  • Member of the Examination Board of the Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics degree programs
  • Expert DIN/ISO Committee NALS/VDI Vibrations of Machines
  • Expert of the Czech Ministry of Education and Science
  • Member of the mechatronics working group of the CDHAW at Tongji University in Shanghai
  • Guest lecturer at the Chinese-German University of Applied Sciences (CDHAW) at Tongji University Shanghai and TU Liberec (Czech Republic)
  • Subject Coordinator Mechatronics of the German University Consortium (DHIK) for the CDHAW
  • Reviewer IEEE and National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa
  • Head of the Master's degree programs in Mechantronics and Electrical Engineering

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Zschunke

  • ERDF Monitoring Committee of the Free State of Saxony

  • Advisory Board for Renewable Energies at the State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology of Saxony

  • Dr. Tyczka Energy Foundation

  • Advisory Board of the Integrated Energy and Climate Concept EUK2050 Dresden

  • Board member of Energy Saxony e.V.

  • Co-Head of the Heating and Cooling Working Group at Energy Saxony e.V.

  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Green Circular Economy (CircEcon) (appointed by the Rectorate of the HSZG)

  • Collaboration as an external member of appointment committees at other universities

Participation of employees in committees

Dipl.-Ing. Sören Alt

  • Member of the HSZG Senate
  • Member of the Competence Center Ost for Nuclear Technology (KOMPOST)

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sebastian Braun

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Daniel Fiß

  • Employee representative on the Institute Council (IPM)
  • Equal Opportunities Officer of the central institutions
  • Member of the extended Senate of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences

Dipl.-Ing. Ulrike Gocht

  • Employee representative on the Institute Council (IPM)

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Thomas Gubsch

  • Chairman of the Energy Storage Working Group of the Cleantech Initiative Ostdeutschland e.V.
  • Working Group Heating and Cooling at Energy Saxony e.V.

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Torsten Klette

  • Chairman of the Energy Storage Working Group of the Cleantech Initiative Ostdeutschland e.V.

Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Schäfer