Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dipl.-Math. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU), Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is currently Senior Professor at TU Ilmenau, Germany and CEO of Brandenburg Labs GmbH, a startup company specializing in immersive audio technologies.

Following times as a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, USA and again FAU he joined the Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, as head of the Audio and Multimedia Department. He is the founding director of the Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmenau where he retired in 2019.

For his pioneering work in digital audio coding (as a main contributor to the mp3 and AAC audio coding standards), perceptual measurement techniques, wave field synthesis, psychoacoustics, and analysis of audio and video signals he received many awards.