Ralf Steinmetz#
| Membership Number: | 5018 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since Oct. 2001 Full Professor and Director Techn. Univ. Darmstadt, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Multimedia Communications Lab (among other responsibilities: dean for 2.5 yr),
- Since Aug. 1997 Adjunct Professorship, Department of Computer Science, Techn. Univ. Darmstadt
- 1996 - 2001 Volkswagen Endowed Chair of Industrial Process and System Communications, Techn. Univ. Darmstadt, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Darmstadt
- 1988 - 1996 Scientist and last position Manager of the WT Multimedia Department, IBM European Networking Center, Heidelberg
- 1987 - 1988 Advanced Development, Philips Communications Industry Corp., Siegen
Fields of Scholarship
- Multimedia technologies & serious games
- Mobile systems & sensor networking
- Knowledge & educational technologies
- Self-organizing systems & overlay communications
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) Fellow
- 2017 VDE ITG Fellow
- 2017 Athene Award for Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Techn. Univ. Darmstadt
- 2014 Chair of Excellence („catedra de excelencia”), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, (financed by Banco Santander)
- 2002 ACM Fellow
- 1999 IEEE Fellow
- 1999 IBM Research "Award for Excellence in Internet Research"
