
Gerhard Kramer is one of the world’s most renowned communications engineer. Image: Astrid Eckert / TUM
Born in Canada, Kramer studied electrical engineering at the University of Manitoba and was awarded a doctorate at ETH Zurich. Afterwards, he worked as an engineer at Endora Tech, a Swiss IT company, before moving to Bell Labs - the research arm of the US company Alcatel-Lucent. In 2009, he was appointed professor at the University of Southern California. One year later, he secured Germany’s highest endowed research award, the Humboldt Professorship. Since then, he has held the Chair of Communications Engineering at TUM. His three-year term as Senior Vice President Research and Innovation will commence on October 1.