Honors and Awards

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded the 2018 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize to Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Professor of Coding for Communications and Data Storage. Wachter-Zeh has been conducting research and teaching at Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2016. Her research on new algorithms combines engineering sciences, informatics and mathematics. [read more]

Tobias Prinz is the recipient of the 2018 Prof. Dr. Ralf Kötter Memorial Award for his outstanding Master thesis entitled "Polar Codes for Higher-Order Modulation and Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping”. The award, endowed with 500 Euros, is named after the TUM Chair of Communications Engineering Ralf Kötter, who died in 2009. The results of the Master's thesis have been presented at several IEEE conferences, including the 2017 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications… [read more]

Dr. Georg Böcherer of the Chair of Communications Engineering of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is the recipient of the Johann-Philipp-Reis Award of the Information Technology Society (ITG) of the German Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology e.V. (VDE). [read more]

Tobias Fehenberger has been awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship Award by the IEEE Photonics Society for his “very impressive accomplishments and academic record”. Tobias will receive his award during the Awards Banquet of the IEEE Photonics Conference in Florida, USA, in October 2017. The Graduate Student Fellowship Program provides fellowships to outstanding IEEE Photonics Society student members based on their research excellence and contributions to IEEE publications and conferences. Just… [read more]

Eitan Yaakobi from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology won a prestigious August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship, funded by the Excellence Initiative. The August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship awards a Visiting Professorship to scientists with an outstanding international reputation who wish to engage in an intensive collaboration with TUM researchers. This professorship will provide funding for Eitan's research visits to TUM-COD. Links: August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting… [read more]

Camilla Hollanti from Aalto University in Finland was awarded a prestigious TUM IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at outstanding early-career international scientists who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas together with a TUM Research Group.This fellowship will provide funding for Camilla's sabbatical stay, starting in November 2017, at the COD group of TUM. Links:TUM IAS Hans Fischer… [read more]

Prof. Gerhard Kramer was awarded a Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship in Berlin on May 12th 2011. On May 16th 2011 he additionally received the Innovation Award of the Vodafone Foundation in Düsseldorf. [read more]

Tobias Lutz was awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2012 for his research proposal "Construction of Robust Timing Codes for Noisy Half-Duplex Relay Networks". The goal of the fellowship is to enable outstanding PhD students to pursue their ideas. [read more]

Michael Heindlmaier was awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2013 for his research proposal "Implementation and Optimization of Noisy Network Coding Schemes". The goal of the fellowship is to enable outstanding PhD students to pursue their ideas. [read more]

The mobile network operator E-Plus annually gives an award for the best PhD dissertation in the area of communications engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. This year Georg Böcherer received the award for his dissertation "Capacity-Achieving Probabilistic Shaping for Noisy and Noiseless Channels". [read more]