Prof. Niels Modler - Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Across the Life Course
“I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before.”
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Role
The Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Across the Life Course is responsible for the organization and quality of educational opportunities at TU Dresden. His tasks range from student advisory services and support to the organization of studies and teaching, the further training of teaching staff in the didactics of higher education, quality assurance in studies and teaching, postgraduate courses and, last but not least, lifelong learning from young to old. The Vice-Rector is dedicated to these tasks and collaborates closely with staff of various central and decentralized organizational units of TUD.
About the Vice-Rector
| since August 2025 | Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Across the Life Course at TUD |
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| since 2022 | Speaker of the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) / TUD (Finance and Infrastructure Division) |
| since 2015 | Speaker for the group of university lecturers in the TUD Senate |
| since 2015 | Board member of the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK) / TUD (Finance and Infrastructure Division) |
| since September 2013 | Chair of Function-integrative Lightweight Engineering at the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology |
| since 2009 | Senator / TUD |
| 2008 | Doctorate / TUD |
| 1993-1999 | Industrial activity in the medical technology sector |
| 1988-1993 | Studies in electrical engineering / electromechanical engineering / biomedical engineering at TUD |
| since 2023 | Member of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the joint Central Unit "Center for Green Circular Economy" (CircEcon) of TU Chemnitz, TUD, TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences |
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| since 2018 |
Deputy spokesperson for DFG Research Training Group 2430 "Interactive fiber-elastomer composites" |
| 2015-2018 | Dresden site spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 39 "Large-scale production technologies for light metal and fiber composite-based components with integrated piezo sensors and actuators (PT-PIESA)" |
| since 2014 | Head of the Lightweight Construction department in the Mechanical Engineering degree program at TUD |
| 2003-2015 | Managing Director and Coordinator of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 639 |
| 2021 | Innovation Award of the AVK - Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe e.V. Development projects: "Highly integrated inductive charging module for electric vehicles" |
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| 2016 |
JEC Innovation Award 2016 - Atlanta |
| 2009 | Innovation Award of the AVK - Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe e.V. Development projects: "Thermoplastic hybrid structures" |
| since 2022 | Member of the scientific circle of the eNOVA Strategy Circle Automobile Future |
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| since 2021 | Chairman of the Akademischer Club Leichtbau an der TUD e.V. (AC Leichtbau TUD) - alumni support |
| since 2021 | Treasurer Verein für Leichtbau und Kunststofftechnik Dresden e.V. (ILK e.V.) - Promotion of science and research in the field of lightweight construction |
| since 2019 | Member of the Lightweight Construction Alliance Saxony (e.V.) |
| since 2019 | Member of the "Efficient Mobility" advisory board of the Saxon Energy Agency - SAENA GmbH |
| since 2017 | Chairman of the VDI-GME technical committee 310 "Production technology for fiber composite materials" |
Team and contact
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NamePatricia Schaal
Assistant
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Advisor of Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Across the Life Course
NameAntje Graf
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