Prof. Dr. Gerald Gerlach – Vice-Rector Academic Affairs

"We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt." (Richard P. Feynman)

Targets

The Office of the Vice-Rector Academic Affairs strives to provide our students with an excellent education and to prepare them optimally for their professional career. We would like to attract the best students to our university by offering attractive degree programmes and thus develop TU Dresden, not only in terms of outstanding research, but also as an excellent educational institution.

Tasks

The Office of the Vice-Rector Academic Affairs supports students and lecturers in teaching and learning at our university by offering a wide range of services for the organisation and success of studies. In addition, there is an active course development and numerous digital teaching and learning environments. Education at TU Dresden results from the unity of research, teaching and studies.

Values

TU Dresden imparts the best knowledge and skills on its students. Our graduates should not only leave the university as highly qualified professionals, but should also have an understanding of ethical and cultural values and thus be able to shape society responsibly.

Responsibilities

The Vice-Rector Academic Affairs is responsible for the organisation and quality of the educational possibilities at TU Dresden. His field of responsibility ranges from student counselling and support to the organisation of studies and teaching, the didactic training of lecturers and the quality assurance in studies and teaching, all the way up to postgraduate courses. The Vice-Rector, alongside the staff of Directorate 8 – Student Affairs and Continuing Education, is dedicated to these tasks.

CV

since 08/2020	Vice-Rector Academic Affairs at TU Dresden
since 1996	Chair of Solid State Electronics and Head of the Institute of Solid State Electronics / TU Dresden
1993	Chair of Technologies for Precision Engineering / TU Dresden
1991	Habilitation (Microsystems) / TU Dresden
1987	PhD (Electrical Engineering) / TU Dresden
1983-1991	Research engineer / "Meßgerätewerk Zwönitz" / "Geräte- und Regler-Werke Teltow GmbH"
1978-1983	Degree in Electrical Engineering / TU Dresden

Positions in teaching and research

2013-2022	Spokesperson for German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group “Hydrogel-based Microsystems”
2015-2020	Dean of Studies for the degree programme Electrical Engineering / TU Dresden
2012-2015	Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering / TU Dresden
since 2012	Founding Chief Editor / Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems (JSSS)
since 2012	Associate Editor-in-Chief / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Journal
2012 – 2017	Member of the DFG Senate Committee and Grants Committee for Collaborative Research Centres
2011-2017	Member of the Senate and the Main Committee of the DFG
2009-2012	Dean of Studies for the degree programme Electrical Engineering / TU Dresden
2006-2016	Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group “Nano and Biotechniques for Electronic Device Packaging”
1996-1998	1^st Deputy Chairperson and Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Faculty Association for Electrical and Computer Engineering / TU Dresden
1995-2004	Spokesperson of the Research Training Group “Sensor Technology” / TU Dresden
1994-2000	Vice Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering / TU Dresden

Guest professorship

2001-2002	University of California / Los Angeles / USA

Honours and awards

2014	Honorary Member Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) / Frankfurt am Main
2011	VDE Honorary Medal Association for Electrical, Electronic& Information Technologies / Frankfurt am Main
2006	VDI Badge of Honour The Association of German Engineers / Düsseldorf
1992	Fritz-Winter-Prize Fritz-Winter-Foundation / Munich

Commitment to science and society

since 2019	Member of the Executive Committee / Dresden International University (DIU)
2013-2016	Chairperson of the Board of Directors German Association of Technical and Scientific Societies (DVT) / Düsseldorf
2006-2008	Vice President and President of the Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers of Europe (EUREL)
2005-2006	Chairperson of the Working Group of University Lecturers for Measurement Technology
2003-2009	Member of the Supervisory Board of the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) / Frankfurt am Main
2002-2010	Chairperson of the VDE Committee for Engineering Education / Frankfurt am Main
2001-2010	Deputy Chairperson and Chairperson of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA)

Team and contact details

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Rektoratsgebäude, 311 Mommsenstraße 11

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Assistants

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Patricia Schaal

Assistant to the Vice-Rector Academic Affairs

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Advisor of Vice-Rector Academic Affairs

Antje Graf

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Discoveries

Görges-Building

Built in 1905, it is home to the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and displays historical exhibits on the development of electrical engineering. It also houses the Altana Gallery, which is run by the Academic Heritage and hosts regular exhibitions. For me, this building is a unique place where art, technology, science, but also history and modernity, come together. Learn more

Spectral Symphony

In the atrium of the Institute of Chemistry, there’s a 30x15x4 metre large, striking work of art: the “Spectral Symphony” by the artist Ronald Fuhrmann. It consists of 1,500 coloured glass tubes and depicts the emission lines of the chemical elements with the atomic numbers from 1 to 99. For me, this is an impressive representation of the laws of nature in a “spatial painting”. Learn more

Astronomical Clock on the Gable of the Willers Building

The astronomical clock was built in the mid-1960s by the Trefftz-Bau architect Prof Walther Henn, the master clockmaker Felix Lange (Dresden), and the tower clock construction company Zacharias (Leipzig). Friedrich Adolf Willers, after whom the building is named, designed the clock, and his daughter, Annemarie Willers, designed the dials. Learn more

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Prof. Dr. Gerald Gerlach – Vice-Rector Academic Affairs

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Tasks

Values

Responsibilities

CV

Team and contact details

Discoveries

Görges-Building

Spectral Symphony

Astronomical Clock on the Gable of the Willers Building

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