Program Directors Driving Academic Excellence in Executive Education

Meet the professors and academic leaders from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) who ensure quality, relevance and lifelong learning at HECTOR School 

Academic Responsibility for Lifelong Learning in a Changing World


"Lifelong learning creates new possibilities and increases flexibility. Especially in today's world with its global economy and dynamic structures, further education is a decisive career advantage. Only through knowledge, innovation, and new ideas we can get ahead."

Dr.-Ing. Judith Elsner
Managing Director
International Department of the KIT gGmbH



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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax
Academic Director of HECTOR School Program Director at Systems Engineering and Management

Meet our Program Directors and Academic Experts

Connecting Research Excellence with Industry Relevance

Eric Sax
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax Institute for Information Processing Technologies (ITIV) | Mobility Systems Engineering and Management (MSEM)
  • Head of the Institute for Information Processing Technology
  • Research focus: systems engineering, currently supervising more than 50 doctoral students in the automotive industry
  • Bilateral projects with OEMs and Tier 1 in the fields of processes/methods/tools, EE architectures, function development (automated driving, energy management, predictive diagnostics), big data analytics
  • Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
  • Member of the Senate of the KIT
  • Speaker of the “Center for Mobility Systems” at KIT
  • Director of the “Innovation Campus Mobility” of KIT and the University of Stuttgart
  • Director at the “Research Center for Information Technology”
  • Program Director at the HECTOR School, the Technology Business School of KIT
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Albert Albers | Program Director | MPD
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Albert Albers Institute for Product Development (IPEK) | Management of Product Development (MPD)
  • Director, Institute for Product Development (IPEK)
  • Member of the VDI-GPP Specialist Committee FB7 “Product Development and Mechatronics” (since 2020)
  • Member of the VDI/VDE-GMA Technical Committee 7.10 “Planning and Development of Hybrid Product–Service Systems” (since 2020)
  • Spokesperson of the Thematic Network “Product Development and Production” at acatech – German National Academy of Science and Engineering (since 2020)
  • Member of the National Platform Future of Mobility (NPM), Working Group 2: Alternative Powertrains and Fuels for Sustainable Mobility (since 2019)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Leichtbau BW GmbH, the State Agency for Lightweight Construction of Baden-Württemberg (since 2018)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of twopillars GmbH (supervisory board function) (since 2018)
  • Managing Director of KCT – KIT Campus Transfer GmbH (since 2015)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society (since 2015)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Brand Group, Anröchte (since 2009)
  • Member of the University Council of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (since 2009)
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences (since 2009)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Doppelbauer | Program Director and Head of Specialization e-Mobility | MSEM
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Doppelbauer Institute of Electrical Engineering (ETI) | Mobility Systems Engineering and Management (MSEM)
  • Professorship for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV), Design of electrical machines and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  • Dean of Studies for Mechatronics and Information Technology at the KIT
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (ETIT)
  • Chairman of IEC Technical Committee 2 – Rotating Machinery (international standardization)
  • Long-standing member of national and European standardization committees (DKE, CENELEC)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Hiller | Programm Director | EEM
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Hiller Electrotechnical Institute (ETI) | Energy Engineering and Management (EEM)
  • EPE ECCE Europe - International Scientific Committee, Topic Chair (since 2017)
  • Kopernikus-Projekt ENSURE - Neue EnergieNetzStruktURen für die Energiewende: Stellvertr. Sprecher Cluster 4 (since 2016)
Porf. Dr. Stefan Nickel | Program Director | EEM, MSEM, POM
Prof. Dr. Stefan Nickel Institute of Operations Research (IOR) | EEM, MSEM, POM
  • Head of the Institute of Operations Research (IOR)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis | Program Director | ISEM
Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis Institute of Applied Informatics & Formal Description Methods (AIFB) | Information Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM)
  • Director of Software Engineering & Innovation, Strategy and Transfer at FZI
  • Chair of the Jury of the GI Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association for Applied Informatics Karlsruhe (AIK) e.V.
  • Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Economics and Management, KIT
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Business Information Systems
  • Associate Editor of the journal Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Information Systems and e-Business Management
Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner | Program Director | ISEM KIT
Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM) | Information Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM)
  • Director Cybersecurity and Law & Software Engineering at FZI
  • Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre Consistency in the View-based Development of Cyber-physical Systems (since 2023)
  • Leader of the research group Dependability of Software-intensive Systems at KASTEL (since 2021)
Prof. Dr. Martin E. Ruckes | Program Director | FEM, ISEM, MPD
Prof. Dr. Martin E. Ruckes Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance (FBV) | Production and Operations Management (POM)
  • Professor of Finance, Department of Economics and Management, KIT (since 2007)
  • Principal Investigator, Karlsruhe School of Services, KIT (since 2011)
  • Principal Investigator, Graduate School Cultures of Knowledge, KIT (since 2020)
Prof. Dr. Maxim Ulrich | Program Director | FEM
Prof. Dr. Maxim Ulrich Institute for Finance, Banking and Insurance (FBV) | Financial Engineering (FE)
  • Chair of Financial Economics and Risk Management 
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Furmans | Program Director | POM
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Furmans Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL) | Production and Operations Management (POM)
  • Head of Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL)
  • Director Information Process Engineering at FZI
  • Vorstandsmitglied der Bundesvereinigung Logistik (BVL)

Academic Excellence Through Expertise, Research and Teaching

Our Program Directors, professors and teaching faculty combine academic expertise, research excellence and practical insight to deliver the highest standards in executive education.

What Defines a Program Director in Executive Education

Curriculum Development
Designing Research-Driven and Practice-Oriented Programs

Faculty Coordination
Ensuring Teaching Excellence and manintaining Academic Standards

The Role of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Academic Excellence
KIT is a Leading Technical University in Europe

Innovation and Technology
Access to Cutting-Edge-Research and Innovation

Professors and HECTOR School in Executive Education

Interdisciplinary Expertise
Engineering, Management and Technology

Industry Collaboration
Teaching with Real-World Impact and Company Insights

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