Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E.h. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c.
Reimund Neugebauer

Resource-Efficient Production as a Driver for Innovation

Prof. Reimund Neugebauer graduated in 1979 from the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) with a degree in Machine Tool Design. From 1979 until 1984 he was a scientific associate and a senior scientific assistant at the TU Dresden where he received his doctorate in 1984.

Since 1992 he has been the Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU with locations in Chemnitz, Dresden and Augsburg. In 1995 he became Chair to the Department of Machine Tools and Forming Technology at the Chemnitz University of Technology and since 2000 he has been the Managing Director of the Chemnitz University’s Institute for Machine Tools and Production Processes.

Prof. Neugebauer is a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Umformtechnik (AGU), president of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP), a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a member of German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).