Employees
Secretary and Project Assistant
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Ms Barbara Stephan
Secretary
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Secretary
Secretary
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, POT 253 Hettnerstraße 3
01069 Dresden
Laboratory Engineer
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Laboratory Engineer
NameMr Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Kriesel
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, POT 268B Hettnerstraße 3
01069 Dresden
Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Kriesel is laboratory engineer at the chair of Electric Railways since 1990. His competences include electric railway drive technology, measurement and control technology, measurement concepts and equipment. He is responsible for the practical exercise "direct current motor", "single-phase alternating current motor" and "vehicles with three-phase drive technology".
Research Assistants
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Research Fellow
NameMr Dipl.-Ing. Markus Werner
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Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, POT 266B Hettnerstr. 1-3
01069 Dresden
Mr Dipl.-Ing. Markus Werner has been a research fellow at the Chair of Electric Railways since 2020. His field of work includes accompanying research in the BMU-funded project Field Test eHighway Schleswig-Holstein (FeSH). The main focus of his research is on the electrical and operational behavior of the overhead line system as well as the system dimensioning in roll-out scenarios. He is also responsible for the laboratory practical course "Railway Power Supply".
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
NameMs Dipl.-Ing. Jule Klepin
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Dipl.-Ing. Jule Klepin has been a research associate at the Chair of Electric Railways since 2023. Her research focus includes system issues of regenerative feed-in into the traction power supply. She is responsible for the practical test "Frequency-elastic grid coupling" and "Overhead Line Protection".
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
NameMs Dipl.-Ing. Lydia Harnisch
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Dipl.-Ing. Lydia Harnisch has been a research assistant at the Chair of Electric Railways since 2024. Her research focuses on the evaluation of conventional and alternative drive systems and their infrastructure. She is also responsible for chair administrative tasks and the lecture "Theoretical foundations of converter systems in transportation technology" and the laboratory experiments “Driving Simulator” and “Transformer".
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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
NameMs Dipl.-Ing. Saskia Drechsel
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Dipl.-Ing. Saskia Drechsel has been a research assistant at the Chair of Electric Railways since 2026. Her research focuses on the controllable and bidirectional coupling of AC and DC grids. She also supervises the tutorials for the courses “Traction Motors” and “Simulation Systems,” the lecture “Return Current and Interference,” as well as the laboratory experiments “Synchronous Machine” and “Synchronous-Synchronous Converter.”
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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
NameMr M.Sc. René Kreibich
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M.Sc. René Kreibich has been a research assistant at the Chair of Electric Railways since 2026. Among other things, his research focuses on system requirements for overhead contact lines under extreme weather conditions. In addition, he supervises the laboratory experiment “Induction Machine.”
Honorary professor
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Honorary Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Hellinger
Siemens AG
Lecturer
Lehrbeauftragter für Fahrleitungen
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Andre Dölling
Lecturer for Contact Lines
Besucheradresse:
Siemens Mobility GmbH,
Rail Electrification
Mozartstraße 33B
91052 Erlangen
Deutschland
Dr. Andre Dölling is lecturer for the subject "contact lines", which is held annually in the winter semester.
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Lecturer for Traction Motors
NameMr Dr.-Ing. Hagen Nieke
VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH
Besucheradresse:
VEM Sachsenwerk GmbH,
Fachgebietsverantwortlicher Konstruktion Traktionsmaschinen
Pirnaer Landstraße 176
01257 Dresden
Deutschland
Dr. Hagen Nieke is lecturer for the subject "traction motors", which is held annually in the summer semester.
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Lehrbeauftragter für Nahverkehrssysteme
NameMr Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Bregulla
Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Bregulla is lecturer for the subject " urban transport systems", which is held in the summer semester 2026/27.
Former Employees
- Former professors:
- Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. habil Hartmut Biesenack
- Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. habil. Paul Kahler †
- Former research assistants:
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Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Albrecht
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Dr.-Ing. Falk Angermann
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Dr.-Ing. Fritjof Aufschläger
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Dr.-Ing. Peter August
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Dipl.-Ing. Jochen Bauer
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Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Bregulla
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Dr.-Ing. André Dölling
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Dr.-Ing. Sascha Giebel
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Dr.-Ing. Alexej Halank
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Dr.-Ing. Sabine Hammer
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Dr.-Ing. André Hauptmann
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Dipl.-Ing. Frank Hartung
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Dipl.-Ing. Elisabeth Helwig
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Dr.-Ing. Matthias Herzog
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Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Holfeld
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Dr.-Ing. Andreas Huber
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Dipl.-Ing. Felix Hüttig
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Richard Kayser, M.Sc.
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Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Kolbe
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Dr.-Ing. Sven Körner
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Lehmann
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Dr.-Ing. Michael Melzer
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Dr.-Ing. Florian Menius
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Dr.-Ing. Sabine Methner
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Dipl.-Ing. André Müller
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Dr.-Ing. Konrad Müller
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Dr.-Ing. Christoph Pache
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Dr.-Ing. Jean-Pierre Pally
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Dipl.-Ing. Jan Pape
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Dr.-Ing. Frank Pintscher
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Dipl.-Ing. Martin Ruscher
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Dipl.-Ing. Markus Schiebel
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Dr.-Ing. Ronny Siegel
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Dipl.-Ing. Markus Staub
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Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Streit
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Johannes Strohhäcker, M.Sc.
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Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Terfloth
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Dipl.-Ing. Nyascha Thomas Wittemann
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Dipl.-Ing. Luise Wottke
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Dipl.-Ing. Giso Wundratsch
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