Reimund Neugebauer (born 27 June 1953 in Esperstedt am Kyffhäuser) is a German

mechanical engineer Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...

and professor who has been working in the field of

machine tool A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of deformations. Machine tools employ some sort of tool that does the cutting or shaping. All m ...

s and forming processes. On 1 October 2012 he took office as the tenth President of the

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society (german: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., lit=Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) is a German research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany ...

, the largest research organization in Europe, from his predecessor Hans-Jörg Bullinger.

Life

Reimund Neugebauer graduated in 1979 from the

Dresden University of Technology TU Dresden (for german: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often wrongly translated as "Dresden University of Technology") is a public research university, the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, th ...

(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 and habilitated in 1989. After the founding of the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in 1992 he became one of the Managing Directors. After the departure of Rolf Umbach in 1994 he was appointed as the sole managing director of Fraunhofer IWU. He held this position for 21 years, until September 2012. In 1993 he became Chair of the Department of Machine Tools 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. On 1 October 2012 he took office as the tenth President of the

, the largest research organization in Europe, from Hans-Jörg Bullinger. Neugebauer is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a member of

German Academy of Science and Engineering Acatech (styled ''acatech),'' founded in 2002 and established as the German Academy of Science and Engineering (german: Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften) on 1 January 2008, represents the interests of Germany, German technical sciences ...

(acatech). From 2010 to 2011 he was the acting president of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP). Since 2014 he has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2015, Prof. Neugebauer was appointed co-chair of the German federal government’s High-Tech Forum, the central advisory board for the development and implementation of Germany’s high-tech strategy. Since 2015, he has been serving as a member of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

’s High-level Group of Personalities on Defence Research chaired by

Elżbieta Bieńkowska Elżbieta Ewa Bieńkowska (; ''née'' Moycho; born on 4 February 1964 in Katowice) is a Polish politician who served as Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Transport before being nominated as European Commission ...

Awards and honours

* Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (2005) * Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Technology, Munich (2012) * Order of Merit (Verdienstorden) of the German State of Saxony (2012) * Honorary doctorate awarded by the Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2013) * Honorary doctorate awarded by the Czech Technical University in Prague (2014) * Erich Siebel Medal, bestowed by the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working (2014)Press release by European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working, January 21, 2014
''Awarding of the Erich-Siebel-Medal''
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at www.fraunhofer.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Neugebauer, Reimund 1953 births Living people German mechanical engineers Fraunhofer Society TU Dresden alumni Chemnitz University of Technology faculty People from Bad Frankenhausen Engineers from Thuringia Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina