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History and development of INSYS

July 2025

  • Kristin Voit takes on the role of research assistant at INSYS.

October 2024:

  • Renaming of the institute – Institut Zero Carbon becomes the Institute for Sustainable Energy Systems (INSYS)
  • The name change underscores the institute's focus on the development of cross-sector, resource-efficient technologies and systems. 

    March 2024:

    • Addition of another research professorship
      • Circular economy and life cycle analysis, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felipe Cerdas

    April 2023

    • Official inclusion of the IZEC in the constitution of the Technical University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS)

    End of 2021:

    • Establishment of the IZEC Institute
    • Research professorships in the following areas:
      • Energy system analysis and energy efficiency, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Scheller
      • Multiphysical simulation for sustainable energy systems, Prof. Dr. Matthias Schicktanz
      • Sensors and signal processing in resource management, Prof. Dr. habil. Jürgen Hartmann
      • Technology and climate impact management, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Miguel Gonzalez-Salazar
    • Start of the first project: BayVFP project Digitalisation ADLESCON Advanced Deep-Learning System Control, duration: 1 December 2021 to 30 November 2024

    April 2021:

    • The president of THWS reported to the university council on plans to establish a new Zero Carbon Institute (IZEC). The institute was to be structured similarly to the existing Digital Engineering Institute (IDEE). 

    February 2021:

    • Review of the transfer of the CENSEY (Center Sustainable Energy Systems) cluster to an independent institute

    July 2020:

    • Definition of new strategic fields within the framework of the Bavarian High-Tech Agenda at THWS, including ‘digitalisation’ and ‘zero carbon’.