Gerhard P. Fettweis, F’09, is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, and founding Scientific Director of the Barkhausen Institute. In 1990 he earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen. Thereafter he was postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, and then joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. He researches wireless communications and chip design, coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 25+ startups. Gerhard is member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the US National Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, NAI, EURASIP, ITG, WWRF, and DATE. In 2025 he received the Bavarian Pioneer Award.

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