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Award for etit-professor

Ralf Steinmetz accepted into the Academia Europaea

2019/11/04 von

Professor Ralf Steinmetz was admitted to the Academia Europaea. The approximately 4,000 members, including more than 70 Nobel Prize winners, have set themselves the goal of promoting a broad understanding of the benefits of knowledge and learning and highlighting scientific topics that affect society. To this end, Academia Europaea organises annual meetings on a focus topic.

Photo: Claudia Baier/Benjamin Schepens
Photo: Claudia Baier/Benjamin Schepens

Steinmetz has been head of the Multimedia Communication Lab (KOM) at the Department etit at the TU Darmstadt since 1996. With over 30 researchers he is working on the realization of his vision of seamless adaptive multimedia communication. By further developing adaptive networks, he is helping to shape the architecture of the Internet of the future

He is a member of the Council for Digital Ethics of the State of Hesse and is committed to responsible digitization. He was the first German scientist to receive both an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow award.

Academia Europaea

The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.