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)
  • 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

  • Guest lecturer at the Chinese-German University of Applied Sciences (CDHAW) of Tongji University Shanghai
  • Member of the Faculty Council F-EI until 09/2021
  • Research Representative of the Faculty F-EI
  • Member of the Senate of the HSZG
  • 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

 

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 role a member of several committees

  • ERDF Monitoring Committee of the Free State of Saxony

  • Renewable Energy Advisory Board at the State Office for the 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.

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

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Torsten Klette

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

Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Schäfer

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 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: