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  • Prof. a.D. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reimers
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  • Department Information Theory and Communication Systems
    • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eduard A. Jorswieck
    • Prof. a.D. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reimers
    • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Schmitz (Lecture)
    • Ronja Ezerih, B.Eng.
    • Inga Schleicher, B.Sc.
    • Jonas von Beöczy, M.Sc.
    • Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Ludwig Besser
    • Mark Hoyer, M.Sc.
    • Dipl.-Ing. Carsten Janda
    • Dipl.-Ing. Martin Le
    • Dipl.-Ing. Andrew Lonnstrom
    • Ph.D. Pin-Hsun Lin
    • Jiaying Liu, B.Sc.
    • Dr.-Ing. Bile Peng
    • Sepehr Rezvani, M.Sc.
    • Lucca Richter, M.Sc.
    • Dipl.-Ing. Peter Schlegel
    • Fabian Schrieber, M.Sc.

Prof. a.D. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reimers

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Ulrich Reimers

Prof. a.D. Dr.-Ing.
Institute for Communications Technology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Schleinitzstraße 22 (room 218)
38106 Braunschweig

u.reimers(at)tu-bs.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 531 391 - 2490
Fax: +49 (0) 531 391 - 5192

Prof. Ulrich Reimers
Photo credit: Fotostudio Stantien/Fotostudio Stantien

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Period Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1952 in Hildesheim
1972 - 1977 Student at the faculty for electrical engineering of Technische Universität Braunschweig (Braunschweig Technical University, Germany).
1978 - 1982 Researcher and principal engineer at "Institut für Nachrichtentechnik" (Institute for Communications Technology) of Braunschweig, Technical University.
1982 - 1989 Employed by "Robert Bosch GmbH - Geschäftsbereich Fernsehanlagen" (business division television equipment) at Darmstadt, Germany.
1989 - 1993 Director of Engineering at "Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)" (the public broadcaster in the four northern states of Germany) at Hamburg, Germany.
April 1993 until today Professor at the Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany and Managing Director of "Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (IfN)" (see above).
June 1995 Award of the "Montreux Achievement Gold Medal" for the contributions to the development of digital television (Digital Video Broadcasting -DVB).
April 1998 Nomination as "Ordentliches Mitglied" (full member) of the "Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft" (scientific society of Braunschweig).
September 1998 Award of the "IBC John Tucker Award" for the development of DVB.
November 1998 Nomination as "Honorary Fellow" of the Royal Television Society (U.K.).
July 1999 Award of the J.J. Thomson Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). For Distinguished Contribution to Electronic Engineering.
July 2000 Award of the 1st class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit.
October 2000 Grant of a "Certificate of Honour" by the NAT (National Association of Teleradiobroadcasters) in Moscow "for the outstanding personal contribution to the development of digital broadcasting in Europe".
14 June 2001 Award of the "Leibniz-Ring-Hannover" by the Presse Club Hannover.
20 June 2001 Recipient of the 2001 Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award during the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics in Los Angeles, CA.
25 September 2002 Award of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award 2002.
25 May 2004 Award of the Richard-Theile-Medaille by FKTG.
18 Juny 2004 Nomination as Full Member of acatech - the Council for Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities .
13 October 2005 Nomination as "Fellow" of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
15 March 2006 Admission into the "Hall of Fame" of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on the occasion of its 100th anniversary (www.iec.ch).
22 October 2006 Award of the Technology-Prize of the Eduard-Rhein-Foundation.
17 January 2007 1st Vice President of the Consumer Electronics Society of the IEEE.
12 September 2010 IBC Innovation Award Content Distribution to the BBC and Prof. Reimers as representative of the DVB-Project.
08 November 2010 Ring of Honor for Prof. Ulrich Reimers
21 May 2012 Appointment as Honorary Member of FKTG
30 Oktober 2012 Appointment to Honorary Fellow of the DVB project
21 November 2012 Awarding of the Lower Saxony State Prize
01 March 2017 Nomination as "Life Fellow" of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
01 January 2018 Nomination as "Life Fellow" of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
5 November 2018 Nomination as "Fellow" of the "Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE" (Information Technology Society, VDE – Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies)  

Sideline activities

  • Member of the "Kommission zur Ermittlung des Finanzbedarfs der Rundfunkanstalten (KEF)" (the independent German commission responsible for the allocation of licence fees to the public broadcasting organisations) since June 1994, chairman of working group number 4 since January 2012

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