With the new scientific director Prof. Thomas Schroeder taking office in February 2018 and the institute´s Leibniz evaluation in December 2018, the IKZ Institute Concept 2019 was developed – and fully supported by the evaluation committee - to strengthen IKZ´s future mission & strategy on science & technology as well as service & transfer on crystalline materials. To put this strategy in the best possible way in place, IKZ rearranged its management & organization structure on 1st April, 2019.
Prof. Dr. Jan Ingo Flege
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU)
Dr. Roger H.M.S. Loo
IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Björn Maul
Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care
Dr. Dirk Ziemann
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
Unit 513, Communication and security of digital systems
Prof. Dr. Claudia Draxl
 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Marc Eichhorn
 Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
Dr. Martin M. Frank
 IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Dr. Benedikt Kramm
 PVATepla, Germany
Dr. Kolja Haberland
 LayTec AG, Germany
Dr. Siddha Pimputkar
 Lehigh University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, USA
Dipl.-Ing. Michael Rosch 
 Freiberger Compound Materials GmbH, Germany
Prof. Dr. Clara Saraceno
 Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany
Dr. Georg Schwalb
 Siltronic AG, Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas Südmeyer
 University of Neuchâtel, Physics Institute, Switzerland
Dr. Björn Maul
Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care
Dr. Björn Maul
Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care
Dr. Dirk Ziemann
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
Department 513 "Communication and Security of Digital Systems"

The four IKZ research programs are provided by the four scientific departments. To promote interdisciplinarity in our research efforts from basic over applied up to pre-industrial developments, the research programs are organized in a 2 x 2 matrix structure. IKZ´s research and development activities thereby follow two innovation pathways, namely innovations in and by crystalline materials.