Since January 1, 2026, Professor Hannes Scheibe is heading the Precision Engineering Group at Technische Universität Ilmenau.
After his studies of automotive engineering and mechanical engineering at the TU Ilmenau, Hannes Scheibe received his doctorate on the topic of "Active-adaptive polishing tools for production of rotationally symmetric aspheres" at the TU Ilmenau in parallel to his work as a development engineer at Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. In 2018 he became teamleader of Optics Technology Development and was head of the Technology Development Group from 2021 on at Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH.
The mechanical engineer has also been contributing his experience in science and industry internationally as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Precision Engineering (EUSPEN) since 2019 and as a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) since 2021.
At TU Ilmenau, Prof. Scheibe would like to continue ongoing research on precision weighing technology, as well as nanopositioning and nanomachining in cooperation with the Institute of Process Measurement and Sensor Technology, among others:
Furthermore, I see great potential in the research and development of technologies for low-particle assembly and low-particle alignment as well as low-emission machining in order to fulfil current and future requirements of high-performance optical systems.
Prof. Thomas Sattel, Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Ilmenau, is convinced:
With his scientific and industrial expertise according to the motto 'Optical technologies meet precision engineering', Prof. Scheibe perfectly complements our department’s strategy of resource-efficient precision engineering.
The university professor would like to pass on his enthusiasm for these topics to the next generation of future engineers in particular:
I am passionate about machines, technologies and challenging topics. A technically outstanding education may enable to solve technical problems - but in combination with passion, technical solutions will be mature and far more sustainable.