Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Berger

Publications/Awards/Prize

  • approx. 150 publications in technical journals and conference proceedings
  • Co-author of 2 technical books:
    • "Pocketbook of Electrical Power Engineering"; publisher Schufft W.; Fachbuchverlag Leipzig; 2007
    • "Electrical contacts, materials and applications"; publisher Vinaricky E.; Springer Verlag; 2002
    • "Electrical discharges in nature and technology"; Publisher Amft D.; 2013.
    • "Electrical contacts, materials and applications"; editor Vinaricky E.; Springer Verlag, 3rd edition; 2016
  • approx. 25 patents
  • 2015 Albert-Keil-Award winner
 

Professional experience / Committees

1991 - 2003 Employee at the company Klöckner Moeller GmbH Bonn
1996 - 2003 Head of Applied Research at Moeller GmbH
2003 Appointment as university professor (C4) in the field of "Electrical devices and systems
2005 - 2011 Scientific representative in the steering committee of the certification body Alpha, German Accreditation Body Frankfurt
since 2011 Member of the Sector Committee Electrical Engineering / Information Technology of DAkkS
2006 - 2009 Prodean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Ilmenau
2007 Head of the ETG Section Q3 "Contact Behaviour and Switching" of the VDE and of the ITG Technical Committee of the same name
2009 - 2011 Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the TU Ilmenau
since 2012 Member of the VDE/VDI-GMM technical committee "Optical and Electronic Interconnection Technology
2014-2019 Member of the Senate Committee for Research and Young Scientists of the TU Ilmenau
since 2016 Appointments Officer of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - TU Ilmenau
since 2016 Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Group for International Conferences on Electrical Contacts
   

University education

1976 Baccalaureate - Special school for electronic industry Martin-Andersen-Nexö, Dresden (MANOS)
1979 - 1984 Studies of Electrical Engineering/Construction at the TU Dresden
1987 - 1991 Doctorate at the TU Dresden, Faculty of Electrical Engineering/Electronics; topic on modelling and simulation of low voltage switching devices
   

Memberships

CIGRE, VDE

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Energy Technology Society in VDE

 

Albert Keil Prize 2015

At the Albert-Keil Contact Seminar 2015, an event of the VDE Mittelbaden and ETG Division Q3 and ITG Technical Committee 9.5 "Contact Behavior and Switching", Prof. Dr.-Ing.Ing. Frank Berger received the Albert-Keil-Award 2015 for special merits in cooperation and management of the VDE department/committee "Contact Behaviour and Switching" as well as for outstanding achievements in research and development in the field of electrical contacts and switching devices, in particular for the initiatives for the promotion and industrial use of modern computer-aided methods.