Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Weber

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Weber is Director of the Institute of Mechatronic Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden. Effective March 1st, 2010, he has been appointed university professor and chair of Fluid-Mechatronic Systems at the TU Dresden. Since July 1st, 2018 he is the leader of the Institute of Mechatronic Engineering. Since May 6, 2022 he is also co-founder and managing director of the Construction Future Lab gGmbH based in Görlitz. Professor Weber had studied mechanical engineering at the TU Dresden, and successfully finished his doctorate in 1991. Until 1997, he was the active senior engineer at the former chair of Hydraulics and Pneumatics. This was followed by an approximately 13-year industrial phase. He was active in various positions at the R&D department of the agricultural and construction machinery manufacturer CNH. Besides his occupation as the head of the Department Hydraulics and design manager for mobile and tracked excavators, starting in 2002, he took on responsibility for the hydraulics in construction machinery at CNH worldwide. From 2006 onward, he was the global head of architecture for hydraulic drive and control systems, system integration and advance development of CNH construction machinery.