Gerhard Kramer

Gerhard Kramer is a Professor and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), holding the Chair of Communications Engineering within the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology. He serves as Vice President for Research and Innovation at TUM since 2019. His research focuses on communications engineering, information theory, and their applications to wireless, optical fiber, and telecommunication networks. He has made significant contributions to channel capacity analysis, coding techniques, and network optimization.

Education: Studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Manitoba (Canada), PhD in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich (1998). Professional Experience includes roles at Endora Tech AG (1998-2000), Bell Labs (2000-2008), and the University of Southern California (2009-2010) before joining TUM in 2010.

Research interests include information theory fundamentals, coding for communication systems, optical fiber channel analysis, and wireless network design. His work emphasizes improving data transmission efficiency, reliability, and network scalability in modern communication systems.

Notable awards include the IEEE Fellow (2010), Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (2010), and membership in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2015). His recent publications explore topics like non-coherent communication, optical fiber channel capacity, and neural network-based interference cancellation.

He supervises a large team of doctoral researchers and postdocs, with over 25 completed doctoral theses and numerous ongoing projects. His labs and collaborations include initiatives on 6G communication systems, quantum communication networks, and Shannon coding techniques.