Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hannes Scheibe
Precision Engineering Group
Since January 1, 2026, Professor Hannes Scheibe has headed the Precision Engineering Group at Technische Universität Ilmenau.
After studying automotive engineering and mechanical engineering at the TU Ilmenau, Hannes Scheibe completed his doctorate on the topic of "Active-adaptive polishing tools for the production of rotationally symmetrical aspheres" at the TU Ilmenau in parallel to his development work at Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH. From 2018 he was employed as Head of Optics Technology Development and since 2021 as Head of Technology Development 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 build on the ongoing research topics on precision weighing technology, 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/adjustment as well as low-emission machining in order to be able to reliably meet the current and future technical 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 under the motto ’Optical technologies meet precision engineering’, Prof. Scheibe perfectly complements our faculty strategy of resource-efficient precision mechanical 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 issues. A technically outstanding education may enable you to solve technical problems - but in combination with passion, far more mature and, above all, more sustainable solutions are created.
