Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch will be the new Rector of the HSZG from March 1, 2020.
Today, the Extended Senate of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences elected Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Kratzsch as Rector of Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences for the term of office from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2025. The election took place on the basis of an election proposal prepared by the University Council in consultation with the Senate on October 21, 2019 and submitted to the Extended Senate by the Chairwoman of the University Council, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Ultimately, his constructive, determined and committed work at the university, but above all his work as Director of the Institute of Process Engineering, Process Automation and Metrology and his convincing ideas and visions for the future of the university are likely to have contributed to his election. During his public introduction to the university, he assured the audience that he would continue the policy he had begun for the future of the university in all important areas. He sees the university's development plan and the target agreement with the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts as the basis and guideline for his actions. His declared objectives also include further intensifying the university's impact in and for the region. This includes further improving the transfer of knowledge and technology and working even more closely with companies and non-university institutions in the region, districts and municipalities. He is also keen to improve communication within the university as a whole and between the two university locations. He would like to achieve this above all through even closer cooperation between the faculties of both university locations.
Professor Kratzsch is 40 years old and completed his studies in electrical engineering/automation technology at the HSZG in 2003. In 2009, he completed his doctorate in engineering at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. In March 2011, he was appointed Professor of Measurement Technology/Process Automation at the HSZG.
Prof. Kratzsch has been very active in research right from the start. From 2004 to 2011, he worked as a project collaborator in BMBF-funded projects at the HSZG or as head of research projects. In 2011, he became head of the "Metrology/Process Automation" department at the Institute of Process Engineering, Process Automation and Metrology (IPM). From 2009 to 2016, he was a project manager at IPM and has been Director of IPM since 2016. Since January 2019, he has headed the "Lightweight Construction and Energy Technology" research group at the FhG-IWU, Plastics Center Oberlausitz.
In addition to research, he has also been involved in academic self-administration. In 2015, he took over the management of the "Automation and Mechatronics" course at the HSZG, is a core team advisor for the Mechatronics department of the German-Mexican University and is responsible for the student exchange program in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with Mexico as well as a member of the permanent Engineering Sciences Commission of the HSZG.
