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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Huber

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Johannes B. Huber is Professor Emeritus of Digital Communications at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and is internationally recognized for his contributions to communication theory, information theory, and digital transmission. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he received his Diplom-Ingenieur degree in 1977. He earned his doctorate in 1982 and his habilitation in 1991 from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich. After serving as research assistant and senior research assistant in Munich and as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, he joined FAU in 1991 as Professor of Signal and Information Theory. In 1997, he was appointed Chaired Professor and Director of the Institute for Information Transmission, a position he held until his retirement in March 2017. Since 2017, he has continued his academic work as Professor Emeritus at FAU.

Throughout his career, Johannes B. Huber has made significant contributions to digital communications, coding and information theory, coded modulation, equalization and detection, OFDM, MIMO transmission, DSL, powerline communications, optical fiber communications, network coding, and related areas. His research results and inventions have found application in LAN, WLAN, and mobile communication systems. He has authored five monographs and around 340 scientific publications, including most recently the comprehensive textbook Digital Communications (co-authored with Robert F. Fischer, Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Teaching and the promotion of young academics have always been central to his academic work. Over the course of his career, he supervised around 180 Master’s theses and more than 50 doctoral theses; eleven of his former doctoral students later became university professors themselves. At FAU, he also held several important leadership roles, including Dean for Students’ Affairs, Chairman of the Telecommunications Laboratory, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He further served the international scientific community in numerous editorial and committee functions, including as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor-in-Chief of AEÜ – International Journal of Electronics and Communications, and member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

His achievements have been recognized by numerous distinctions, including Best Paper Awards of the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the EEEfCOM Innovation Awards in 2003 and 2010, the Vodafone Foundation Innovation Award for Mobile Communications, election as IEEE Fellow, Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, ITG Fellow, IIS Fellow of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, full membership in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt. Within the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, he has served in several leading roles, including as Vice-Chairman of Section III and as long-standing Chairman of the committee “Forum Technology.”

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