Emeriti

Ilmenau University of Technology / IPMS

Adjunct Professor of Process Measurement Technology

1986
Ph.D. from the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the Technical University of Ilmenau
; thesis topic: “A Contribution to the Development of Interferometric Optical Accelerometers for Inertial Navigation Systems”

2008
Habilitation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ilmenau
University of Technology Topic: “Interferometric Force Sensors for the Load Range up to 0.1 Newton”

2008
Appointed as Privatdozent in the field of “Process Measurement Technology”

2014
Appointed adjunct professor in the field of “Process Measurement Technology”

2022
Retired, but continues to work for the Institute for Process Measurement and Sensor Technology

Main areas of research:

• Digital filters
• Interferometric force measurement technology
• Metrology
• Nanopositioning and nanomeasurement technology

Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Process Measurement and Sensor Technology

1984
: Ph.D. from the Technical University of Ilmenau in the field of process measurement technology

1983–1990:
Senior Research Engineer in the Thermodynamics Department of the Office for Standardization, Metrology, and Product Testing, responsible for the representation and dissemination of the physical quantities density and viscosity

1990–1993
Head of the Density Laboratory at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig

1994–2007
: Director of the Thuringian State Office for Measurement and Calibration

2002
Appointed Visiting Professor at the China Institute of Metrology, Hangzhou, PR China

2006–2022
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA)

2007–2015
Head of the Department of Chemical Physics and Explosion Protection at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig

2007–2014
Vice President of the Euro-Asian Cooperation of Metrological Institutions (COOMET)

2008
Awarded the VDI Badge of Honor

2008
Appointed Honorary Professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2012
Recipient of the Woodington Award from the Measurement Science Conference (MSC), Anaheim, California

2012
Appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig

2015–2021
Appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau

2016–2022
Chair of the Advisory Board on Fundamentals and Methods of Measurement and Automation Technology of the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology (GMA)

Professor Sommer has published more than 150 articles in professional journals and delivered more than 170 presentations at national and international conferences. He is a co-founder of the Sensor and Measurement Science International Conference (SMSI).

Founder and long-time director of the Institute of Process Measurement and Sensor Technology and the Department of Process Measurement Technology

1970 Awarded the degree of Dr.-Ing.

1974 Habilitation

1974–75 Visiting scholar at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, now the National University of Ukraine

1981 Appointed full professor of process measurement technology

1990 Founded the Institute for Process Measurement and Sensor Technology and served as its director until 2009

1991 Founded SIOS Meßtechnik GmbH,
together with several colleagues from the institute

1995 Appointed visiting professor at Xi’an University of Technology, China

1996 Appointed visiting professor at Tianjin University, China

1997 Awarded an honorary doctorate by the National Technical University of Ukraine

2002 Awarded an honorary doctorate by the National University “Lvivska Politechnika,” Ukraine

2002 Initiator of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 622 “Nanopositioning and Nanomeasuring Machines” and spokesperson until 2008

2002 Awarded the Thuringian Research Prize

2003 Appointed a Full Member of the Academy of Public Sciences in Erfurt

2009 Awarded the Medal of Merit by the Thuringian Ministry of Culture and retired, continued to work

at the institute as a consultant and director of the NPMM 200 transfer and collaborative project 2009 Awarded the Ernst Abbe Prize

2010 Awarded the VDE Gold Ring of Honor

2010 Awarded the Medal of Honor by the City of Ilmenau

Prof. Jäger has published more than 60 articles in journals and delivered approximately 180 presentations at national and international conferences. He has been granted more than 40 patents. Prof. Jäger was invited to give guest lectures in: China (Xi’an University of Technology in 1993, 1997; Tianjin University in 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2010; Shanghai Institute of Measurement and Testing in 2006).
National Taiwan University in 2002 and 2003; Taipei University of Technology in 2005; the University of North Carolina in 2004 and 2009; Stanford University in 2007; the Modern Academy in Cairo, Egypt, in 2007; and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia in 2008.

Long-time head of the Measurement Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Measurement Technology department
 

1972
Awarded the degree of Dr.-Ing. 

1985
Habilitation

1978–1979: Additional studies at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute 

1985
Appointed lecturer in production metrology and optoelectronic sensor technology

1988
Appointed associate professor

Since 1988
: University professor at the Institute for Process Measurement and Sensor Technology

2009
Director of the Institute for Process Measurement and Sensor Technology

2010
Retired

1940
: Completed his studies in mathematics and natural sciences; Specializing in aeronautics at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg
 
; 1940–1945
: Participated in metrological investigations into aircraft
 
landing procedures; 1945
: Worked at a tire factory in Berlin under Soviet management; later worked for several years at various metrology design offices in the USSR
 ; 1956
Appointed to the newly founded Ilmenau University of Electrical Engineering; Established the “Electrical Measurement Technology” department at the “Institute for General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering” under the direction of Prof. Philippow
 ; 1960
: Earned his doctorate at the Faculty of Aeronautics at the Technical University of Dresden
 ; 1961
: Appointed full professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau; Assumed directorship of the “Institute for General and Optical Measurement Technology” at the “Faculty of Precision Mechanics and Optics”

; 1981
: Retired