Prof. Dr. Reimund Neugebauer

BIOGRAPHY
Born June 27, 1953 in the municipality of Esperstedt in Thuringia, Germany
• Since 2012 President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V.
• 2010 – 2011 President of the German Academic Society Production Engineering (WGP)
• 2010 Initiator and spokesperson of the Fraunhofer AutoMOBILE Production Alliance
• 2003 – 2006 Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz)
• 2000 Founding President of Industrieverein Sachsen 1828 e. V., an association of approximately 120 companies (representing 20 billion euros in sales; 30,000 employees); Founder and Managing Director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes (IWP), TU Chemnitz
• 1998 Initiator and Dean of Studies, Microtechnology/Mechatronics program, TU Chemnitz
• 1995 Full Professor and Department Chair of Machine Tools and Forming Technology, TU Chemnitz, while also serving as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU
• 1994 – 2012 Executive Director of Fraunhofer IWU
• 1992 Director of Machine Tools and Automation Technology at the Fraunhofer Institution for Forming Technology and Machine Tools, the predecessor of Fraunhofer IWU
• 1991 Award of the academic degree of Doktor-Ingenieur habilitatus; commissioned by the Fraunhofer Executive Board to establish the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Forming Technology and Machine Tools
• 1990 Executive Director at the Institute of Machine Tools, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
• 1989 University Lecturer, Machine Tools and Tool Design, TUD
• 1989 Doctorate in technical sciences (Dr. sc. techn.), TUD: “Development of flexible sheet metal molding systems“
• 1985 Employed in the field of design and development by the company Kombinat Umformtechnik, Erfurt, rising to a senior position
• 1984 Doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing.), TUD: “Computer-assisted preparation of finite element calculation models for machine tool structures“
• 1975 Degree in mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.), TUD; focus on machine tool design