Prof. Dr. -Ing. Thomas Sporer

Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IDMT

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
since 2010 professor at Berlin University of the Arts
since 2004 deputy director of Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT
2000 – 2003 research fellow, Fraunhofer Working Group for Electronic Media AEMT, Ilmenau (since 2004 Fraunhofer IDMT)
since 1999 lectureship at Technische Universität Ilmenau
1998 received Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in electrical engineering
1997 – 2000 research fellow, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
1989 – 1997 research fellow, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
1988 – 1989 research fellow, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
1983 – 1988 study of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

Main Research

audio coding
filter-banks
psychoacoustics
quality assessment
sound evaluation

 

Memberships

Member of the ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union, Radiocommunication Sector)
Member of IEC TC100
Member of Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Member of EBU (European Broadcasting Union)
Rapporteur on audio quality assessment in ITU-R WP6C
Member of ITU-R WP6B, SMPTE DC28 and IEC TC100/TA11

 

Awards

2004 Thuringian Research Award (Thüringer Forschungspreis) 2003, category "Applied Research" (together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg and Dr.-Ing. Sandra Brix)