Joerg Eberspaecher
From IRF 2007
Prof.Jörg Eberspächer
Prof.Jörg Eberspächer studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he earned the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in 1970 and 1976, respectively. From 1977 to 1990 he was with Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, where he was responsible, in various positions, for research and development in the fields of high speed networks (LAN, ATM) and intelligent networks. For many years he was active contributor to international standardization bodies, e.g., ANSI and ECMA. He was one of the fathers of the ANSI FDDI-2 Hybrid Ring standard and one of the promoters of the ECMA standard Computer Supported Telecommunication Applications for the intelligent Host-PBX-interconnection.
In 1990, Jörg Eberspächer was appointed full professor and head of the newly founded Institute of Communication Networks at the Technische Universität München. His research interests are network architectures for high speed and mobile communication, multimedia services and applications and interdisciplinary topics in Telecommunications. He is coauthor of the Wiley book GSM Global System for Mobile Communication, editor of several books on advanced topics in telecommunications and has authored or coauthored many papers on telecommunication networks and services. He is editor for mobile networks of the journal European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT) and has served as member of the scientific program committees of many international conferences. He is guest professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai, China and one of the scientific directors of the interdisciplinary Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) München. Jörg Eberspächer is senior member IEEE and member ACM and VDE, and member of the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA”. From 1997- 1999 he was member of the board and from 2000-2002 chairman of the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG). From 2000-2002 he was member of the board of VDE. He is chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) HHI, Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institut for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin, member of the scientific advisory board of the Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.), Vienna, Austria, member of the scientific advisory board of the Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste (WIK), Bad Honnef, and member of the board of the MÜNCHNER KREIS.
