The new university management is complete

Prof. Sophia Keil was born on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen and studied business administration at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences. From 2005 to 2006, she pursued a part-time doctoral program at the Technical University of Dresden. Throughout her professional career at the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH, at the Chair of Business Administration, particularly in logistics, at Dresden International University (DIU), and at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences, she acquired comprehensive technical, practical, and leadership expertise in the areas of business process, production, supply chain, and logistics optimization. In 2011, she received her Dr. rer. pol. degree from the Technical University of Dresden with a dissertation titled “Flow-Oriented Design of Production Systems: The Case of Semiconductor Factories.” In 2015, she was offered a professorship at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany (NY, USA), which she declined.
Since December 2017, Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Sophia Keil has been a professor of business administration, specializing in production management and logistics, at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. In December 2018, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Engineering Management.

Her research focuses on developing approaches to shaping the digital transformation of the economy and society, developing innovative teaching and learning methods and educational formats for people of all generations, and developing methods for the effective and efficient design of production systems and supply chains. She is currently active in two European high-tech research projects, “Power to Power” and “Integrated Development 4.0.” In these projects, she focuses in particular on shaping the workplaces of the future in the context of Industry 4.0. In addition, she leads the BMBF research project “Europe Open Academy” (“EurOpA”), which is part of the large-scale structural transformation project and alliance “Lausitz – Life and Technology.” The goal of this project is to design and, ultimately, establish a continuing education academy in Upper Lusatia. She is a member of the program committees for the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) and the European Advanced Process Control and Manufacturing Conference (apcm), and the author of over 30 publications.

Prof. Raj Kollmorgen was born in Leipzig. Between 1985 and 1990, he studied philosophy, social sciences, and economics in Berlin and subsequently worked as a researcher, lecturer, and professor at various academic institutions, including the universities of Jena, Magdeburg, and Toronto (Canada).

In the spring of 2013, he was appointed professor of management of social change at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. Since 2014, he has served as program coordinator for the master’s degree programme in “management of social change” at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and since 2016, he has also been director of the Institute for Transformation, Housing, and Social Spatial Development (TRAWOS).
His work focuses on comparative transformation studies, East Germany, and German reunification; he conducts research on socio-ecological change, innovative regional development, elites, as well as political populism and radicalism. He has published extensively on these topics, most recently, for example, the “Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation” (co-authored with Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener). He is also active in regional and national mass media and has been advising a wide range of governmental, political, and civil society actors for many years.

Currently, he is, among other things, a member of the German Federal Government’s Commission on “30 Years of the Peaceful Revolution and German Reunification.”