Portrait of Professor Cherif
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dipl.-Wirt. Ing. Chokri Cherif has held the Chair of Textile Technology and served as Director of the Institute for High-Performance Fiber Systems Technology: Medicine, Mobility, Energy, Infrastructure (ITM) at TU Dresden since 2005. He was born on May 24, 1966, in Tunisia.
Without high-performance textile fibers … jumbo jets cannot take off in an environmentally friendly manner, nor can wind turbines be operated; these fibers make a significant ecological contribution to reducing pollutants.
Being a professor … makes me happy, because together with my colleagues at the ITM, I make a special contribution to humanity, the environment, and safety every day through our textile-based innovations.
From students … I expect a thirst for knowledge, which will enable them to receive an excellent industry-oriented education and achieve leading positions in science and business.
In the future … textile materials will increasingly establish themselves as the materials of the future in all areas of life and will thus become indispensable in transportation engineering, the environment, construction, medicine, safety, and energy.
If I could study again … I would love to pursue a degree in medicine and combine it with engineering.
Excellence … I associate in particular with international visibility and the further expansion of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research at TU Dresden, which leads to marketable solutions.