Professor of Applied Linguistics Polish and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Maćkowiak studied German language and literature at the University of Wrocław, where she obtained her doctorate in 1996. She taught at several colleges and universities in Poland, Germany and Switzerland and worked as a lecturer, subject advisor and head of department before moving to Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in 2010. She was appointed Professor of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies Polish in 2015 and has been Professor of Applied Linguistics Polish and Cultural Studies since 2021.
Her research focuses on the cultural and literary history of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with a particular focus on the regionality and cultural heritage of Silesia. For her academic and didactic achievements, she was awarded the Rector's Prize of the University of Wrocław (2000) and the Academy of Applied Sciences in Jelenia Góra (2009), among others.
In addition to her academic work, she is involved in cultural studies projects and collaborates with museums and academic institutions in Germany and Poland.
Professor of Business Administration, in particular Production Management and Logistics at the Faculty of Business Administration and Engineering Management
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Sophia Keil has been Professor of Business Administration, in particular Production Management and Logistics at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences since December 2017. From December 2018 until the beginning of May 2020, she was Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Engineering Management. From March 2020 to February 2025, she was Vice Rector for Education and International Affairs at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.
Born on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, she studied business administration at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences. In the years 2005 to 2006, she completed a part-time doctorate at the Technical University of Dresden. In her professional development at the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH, at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Logistics, at the Technical University of Dresden, at Dresden International University (DIU) and at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences, she was able to acquire comprehensive specialist, experience and management knowledge in the fields of corporate process, production, supply chain and logistics optimization.
In 2011, she received her doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden with a thesis on "Flow-oriented design of production systems using the example of semiconductor factories". In 2015, she was offered a professorship at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute Albany (NY, USA), which she did not accept.
Her research focuses on the development of approaches for shaping the digital transformation of the economy and society, the development of innovative teaching/learning methods and educational formats for people of all generations and the development of methods for the effective and efficient design of production systems and supply chains as well as the human-centered design of the working world of the future.
Prof. Keil is an active researcher and heads the Science Center Oberlausitz-Technologie Transfer-innovativ research group, SCO-TTi for short. She is currently leading four research projects, the two BMBF-funded research projects - Perspektive Arbeit Lausitz (PAL) and Factory for Future (F4F) as well as the EU projects AIMS 5.0 and ENERGIEAUTARKE KOMMUNIKATIONS- & INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIEN AUS SACHSEN (EKI Saxony). She is particularly involved in designing the workplaces of the future in the context of Industry 5.0. She is a member of the program committees of the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) and the European Advanced Process Control and Manufacturing Conference (apcm) and the author of over 30 publications. She is also involved in research monitoring and chairs the advisory board of the WIR federal project Artifarm.
