Karlheinz Brandenburg - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1954 Born in Erlangen
  
• 1980 Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  
• 1982 Dipl.-Math., Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  
• 1989 Received Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering for his work on digital audio coding and perceptual measurement Techniques. The research results of his dissertation are the basis of MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and most other modern audio compression schemes.
  
• 1989 Postdoctoral member of technical staff, Signal Processing Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA
  
• 1990 Scientific assistant at the Chair of Electronic Engineering at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  
• 1993 Head of Audio/Multimedia department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen
  
• 2000 - 2003 Head of Fraunhofer-Arbeitsgruppe für Elektronische Medientechnologie AEMT, Ilmenau
  
• 2000 - 2005 Director of the Institute of Media Technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology
  
• since 2000 Chair of Electronic Media Technology at the Institute of Media Technology at Technische Universität Ilmenau
  
• since 2004 Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Ilmenau
  
• since 2012 Director of the cross-departmental Institute for Media and Mobile Communications at Technische Universität Ilmenau
  
• Fellow of AES (1994), IEEE (2006), EURASIP (2016)