Awards

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]

Joachim Hagenauer has been named the first recipient of the Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG). The prize is awarded every 4 years to honor outstanding technical and scientific achievements in the field of communications and information technology. The basis for judging is contributions that significantly expanded fundamental knowledge in the field of communications and information technology, and for promoting the field through a complete body of work. [read more]

Nicole Rossmann was awarded TUM's Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal for her outstanding contributions as "Administrative Assistant" of the "Master of Science in Communications Engineering" (MSCE ) program, which is TUM's first international graduate program. [read more]

The Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy was established by minister Dr. Johannes Hahn in 2008. It is awarded to the best dissertations of a given year, nominated by the presidents of the Austrian universities. In the academic year of 2013/2014, the award was granted to 40 candidates.&nb [read more]

Mari Kobayashi will receive a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This prestigious fellowship is granted to approximately 500 applicants annually across all fields of research and at all German universities. (The number 500 includes applicants for the Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers.) The fellowship will provide funding for Mari's sabbatical stay at TUM and LNT. [read more]