THI starts the summer semester with 12 new professorships

At the start of the summer semester, twelve new professors began their teaching and research activities at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI). The university thus grows to over 160 professorships.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Albrecht teaches in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Faculty of Engineering and Management. Albrecht studied business administration at Heilbronn University and received his doctorate from Steinbeis University Berlin with a thesis on the externalisation tendency of controlling in small and medium-sized enterprises. After professional positions in controlling and financing, he was most recently founder and CEO of Loratech AG, a company in the cleantech and recycling industry. Before that he was Managing Director at Crone Wärmetechnik GmbH in Rhauderfehn and Bremen and Commercial Director at AWS Group AG in Heilbronn.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jana Sue Bochert takes over the founding professorship of the Industrial Engineering and Construction programme at the new Sustainable Infrastructure Faculty at the Neuburg Campus. Bochert completed her doctorate at the TU Dresden at the Institute for Statics and Dynamics. She was employed as head of the department of structural dynamics at the Kempen Krause Group and as an expert for structural behaviour at TÜV SÜD Energietechnik. Before accepting the call to THI, she worked as a division manager for structural design at Scherr+Klimke AG.

Prof. Dr Sergej Diel is Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Numerical Methods at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Diel had already been a lecturer at THI since 2019. Before that, he worked at BMW AG as a calculation engineer in the area of transmission development and at Audi AG as a development engineer in the area of complete vehicles. He studied mechanical engineering with a focus on lightweight construction at Landshut University of Applied Sciences and completed his doctorate in the field of materials mechanics at the Competence Centre for Lightweight Construction at Landshut University of Applied Sciences and at the Chair of Engineering Mechanics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Haug teaches in the Department of Physics and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Management at THI. Haug studied mathematics and physics at the University of Regensburg, where he also completed his doctorate in the field of micromagnetism and transmission electron microscopy. He then worked as a product developer and project manager at Osram Opto Semiconductor GmbH in Regensburg and as a development engineer in the field of light and vision at Audi AG.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Richard Membarth takes over the research professorship for Systems on Chip and AI in Edge Computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and teaches in the degree programmes Autonomous Vehicle Engineering and Automated Driving and Vehicle Safety. Prior to his appointment at THI, he conducted research at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH in Saarbrücken on approaches for specialising programs in order to describe algorithms independently of the hardware without having to accept losses in execution speed. He received his doctorate from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and worked for several years as a software consultant for CUDA.

Prof. Dr. Beate Navarro Bullock is Professor of Data Science and Database Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science. Before her appointment at THI, she worked as a senior consultant for MID GmbH in the field of business intelligence in Nuremberg, particularly in data warehouse projects at the Federal Employment Agency. Most recently, she worked for several years at Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH in projects in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data Science. She completed her doctorate with a focus on data mining and information retrieval in social media at the universities of Würzburg and Kassel. Several research and practical stays (Microsoft Research, IBM) and a Master's thesis took her to Paris, Portsmouth, Madrid and Seattle.

Prof. Dr. Katharina Schauberger teaches Global Economics and Business Management at the Business School. Prior to her appointment at THI, she worked as an advisor for digitalisation, Industry 4.0 and fundamental issues of industrial policy at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) in Berlin and as an advisor at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris. Most recently, she worked as an advisor in the BMWi's Working Group 3 SMEs - Digital. Schauberger studied economics at the University of Regensburg in the Honors-Elite programme and received her doctorate from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

Prof. Dr Alexander Schiendorfer is a research professor for AI-based optimisation in automotive production at the Faculty of Engineering and Management and teaches in the master's programme Automotive Production Engineering. He studied Software Engineering at the University of Augsburg, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU Munich as part of the Elite Network Bavaria. Prior to his appointment at THI, he worked as an academic councillor at the Institute for Software & Systems Engineering at the University of Augsburg, where he received his doctorate after submitting a thesis on the modelling of preference-based optimisation problems.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlickewei is Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Management. Before his appointment at THI, he held professorships at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Outside of academia, he worked as a management consultant with a focus on artificial intelligence and was responsible for setting up the strategy department at UnternehmerTUM's appliedAI initiative. He studied mathematics at the Universities of Freiburg, Rome and Paris before receiving his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schmidtner takes over the research professorship for Sustainable Urban Development and AI at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Schmidtner studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She completed her doctorate at the Klatten Endowed Chair for Empirical Educational Research at TUM. Before joining THI, she worked as a data scientist and function developer, as well as a data scientist and project manager in pre-development in the Smart Mobility division at Audi AG.

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Schneider joins the Faculty of Engineering and Management as Professor of Business Administration and International Management. Before her appointment at THI, Schneider worked for several years as a manager in the chemical industry, including for Bayer CropScience, Süd-Chemie and the Clariant Group. Schneider studied business administration at the University of Trier and Aston Business School Birmingham. She received her doctorate from WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management with a thesis on the management of intangible corporate resources.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Uhl is a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science in the field of Social Implications and Ethical Aspects of AI. He studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz and economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He then did research at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena and a doctorate in economics at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Uhl was a post-doctoral researcher at the Peter Löscher Foundation Chair for Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich and then head of the junior research group "Ethics of Digitalisation" at TUM.