On September 1, 2021, Prof. Jörg Schulze took over the management of Fraunhofer IISB from Prof. Martin März, who had led the institute on an interim basis since 2018. Prof. Schulze also holds the Chair of Electronic Components (LEB) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

Jörg Schulze grew up in Leipzig and studied physics at the TU Braunschweig from 1990 to 1996. He obtained his doctorate (in 2000) and habilitation (2004) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. A research stay took him to the University of California in Los Angeles. From 2004 to 2008, Jörg Schulze supplemented his university education by working in industry at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich as Senior Consultant "Technical Risk Management" and Head of the "Mathematical Engineering" competence field. In 2008, Jörg Schulze was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Semiconductor Technology at the University of Stuttgart, where he worked until his move to the IISB.

Jörg Schulze's scientific work focuses on the semiconductor technology of silicon-germanium-tin-based devices, the manufacture of power semiconductor devices from wide-bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide, gallium nitride and gallium(III) oxide, as well as color centers in silicon carbide and quantum technologies based on them.