Gerald Gerlach

Gerald Gerlach received the M.Sc. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, in 1983 and 1987, respectively. From 1983 to 1991, he worked in research and development in the field of sensors and measuring devices for several companies. In 1993, he became a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TU Dresden, where he has been the Head of the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory since 1996. Since 2013, he has also been heading the DFG Research Training Group “Hydrogel-based Microsystems,” TU Dresden. Since 2020, he has been the Vice Rector Academic Affairs at TU Dresden. More than 70 Ph.D. students have earned their doctorate under his supervision. He has (co)authored more than 250 articles in scientific journals and has (co)authored and (co)edited ten textbooks and monographies. He is an inventor or a co-inventor of more than 50 patents. His research is focused on sensor and semiconductor technology, simulation and modeling of micromechanical devices, the development of solid-state sensors, especially infrared sensors and piezoresistive chemical sensors, and polymer-based actuators. Prof. Gerlach served as the President for the German Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA) from 2007 to 2010. He was the Vice President and the President of EUREL (The Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers of Europe), respectively, from 2007 to 2008. From 2002 to 2009, he served as a member for the Advisory Board of the VDE (German Association of Engineers in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Technology) and the Chairperson for the VDE’s Standing Committee for Engineering Education from 2001 to 2012. In 2013, he was an Advisory Board Member of the DVT–German Association of Technical-Scientific Societies for the period 2013–2016 as the Chairperson. Since 2012, he has been serving as an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Sensors Journal.