Structure

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)
  • Electrical Engineering/Circuit Technology (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kühne)
  • Power Plant and Energy Technology (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Zschunke)

Participation of professors in committees

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch

  • Head of Automation and Mechatronics, Head of Mechatronics and member of the associated study commission
  • Technical core team advisor for the Mechatronics department of the German-Mexican University in the German University Consortium for International Cooperation (DIHK)
  • Member of the Standing Committee for Engineering Sciences of the Rector of the HSZG
  • Chairman of the VDI district group Oberlausitz
  • Reviewer AiF
  • Reviewer Selection Committee Annual Conference on Nuclear Engineering
  • Reviewer International Conference on Nuclear Engineering ICONE
  • GMA Technical Committee 7.11 "Instrumentation and Control in Nuclear Power Plants"

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kästner

  • GMA Technical Committee 5.14 "Computational Intelligence"
  • Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
  • Guest lecturer at the Chinese-German University of Applied Sciences (CDHAW) of Tongji University Shanghai
  • Reviewer Selection Committee Annual Conference on Nuclear Technology

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Worlitz

  • Dean 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 Tonji 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

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Tobias Zschunke

  • Vice-Rector for Research at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in the 2015 to 2020 electoral term and in this function member of several committees
  • Expert in the BMBF programs "IngenieurNachwuchs" and "FHInvest"
  • Member of the VDI working group on VDI 3461 "Emission reduction in wood gasification plants"
  • Consultant to the biomass gasification working group of the Fördergesellschaft Erneuerbare Energien e.V. (FEE) and contributor to its annual assessment of the status of thermochemical gasification of biomass in conjunction with combined heat and power generation, in the course of the "Small and medium-sized wood gasification" symposia during the RENEXPO® in Augsburg
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the "International User Conference for Biomass Gasification", in the course of the CEP -CLEAN ENERGY & PASSIVE HOUSE® in Stuttgart

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Rainer Hampel (retired)

  • Project Committee "Transients and Accident Sequences" at the BMWi project management organization until 2010
  • Project reviewer for Czech Science Foundation (until 2012)
  • Reactor Safety Commission, Electrical Facilities Committee 1991-2010
  • Expert in the aFuE program of the BMBF (automation technology)
  • GMA Technical Committee 7.11 "Control technology in nuclear power plants"
  • Expert for BMWi, BMBF research projects

Participation of employees in committees

Dipl.-lng. (FH) Daniel Fiß

  • GMA Technical Committee 7.11 "Instrumentation and Control in Nuclear Power Plants"
  • GMA Technical Committee 5.14 "Computational intelligence"
  • ITG Information Technology Society in the VDE

 

Dipl.-Ing (FH) Roman Schneider

  • Member of the VDI working group on VDI 3461 "Emission reduction in wood gasification plants"

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 with the laboratories

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

is excellently developed 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
  • 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 five specialist areas: