Title: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c.
6G-life Position: Principal Investigator
University: TU Dresden – Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems
Email: fettweis@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de
Phone: +49 351 463 41000
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Work Packages involved:
WP1.5 New radio interface and antennas
Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Since 2018 he is also founding director/CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless transmission and chip design, coordinates 5G++Lab Germany. His team spun-out 18 tech and 3 non-tech startups, and he initiated 4 platform companies. Gerhard is member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), and German Academy of Engineering (acatech), and active in helping organize IEEE conferences.