Gerhard P Fettweis

Scientific Director & CEO / Vodafone Chair Professor at Barkausen Institute / Vodafone

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Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen (Germany) 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 Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless communications and chip design, coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO.

His team spun-out 30 tech startups, and he initiated 6 platform entities. Gerhard is member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, National Academy of Inventors, EURASIP, WWRF, and DATE. He is active in organizing IEEE conferences, was on the board pf public companies in Germany, Switzerland, and USA (Nasdaq). He has received numerous awards, the most recent one being the inaugural Bavarian Pioneer Award 2025.