Gerhard Fettweis

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Gerhard Paul Fettweis (born March 16, 1962 in Antwerp ) is a German electrical engineer and professor of communications engineering .

Life

Gerhard Fettweis is the son of communications engineer Alfred Fettweis . As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, he studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University from 1981 to 1986 , where he obtained his doctorate in 1990 following his studies. He then worked as a visiting scientist at IBM and TCSI Inc. in Berkeley .

Since 1994 he has held the Vodafone endowed chair for mobile communications systems at the Institute for Communications Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University of Dresden .

In 1995 he received the Technical Communication Research Prize . In 1999 he founded Systemonic AG and in 2003 Signalion in Dresden .

He is a member of the Lower Saxony Scientific Commission , which advises the Lower Saxony state government on questions of science and research policy. Until March 2010 he was the coordinator of the top cluster Cool Silicon , a project of Silicon Saxony with funding from the BMBF . Fettweis coordinates the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), which is being funded in the third edition of the Excellence Initiative as the second Cluster of Excellence of the TU Dresden. Fettweis has been the coordinator of the interdisciplinary 5G Lab at the TU Dresden since 2014 .

In 2009 he was elected an IEEE Fellow. Since 2012 he has been a member of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering . On March 23, 2016, Gerhard Fettweis was elected a member ( matriculation number 7674 ) of the Leopoldina . Also in 2016 he received the VDE honor ring.

literature

  • Leopoldina Newly Elected Members 2016, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2017, p. 14 ( PDF ).
  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 208 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Annual report 2017 , p. 79.
  2. ^ Gerhard Fettweis: Parallelization of the Viterbi decoder: algorithm and VLSI architecture . 1990, ISBN 3-18-144410-3 (Techn. Hochsch. Aachen, Fac. F. Electrical engineering, dissertation, 1990).
  3. ↑ Silicon Saxony wins BMBF top cluster competition , Economy in Saxony, September 3, 2008.
  4. ↑ 5G Lab Germany
  5. ^ IEEE Fellows Directory , accessed February 22, 2018
  6. ↑ Reinforcement for acatech: Gerhard Fettweis elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering , TU Dresden, July 27, 2012.
  7. ↑ Member entry by Gerhard Fettweis (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 13, 2016.
  8. ↑ VDE ring of honor . Retrieved October 20, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fettweis, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fettweis, Gerhard Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and professor of communications engineering
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp