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Head of the Research Department Intelligent Networks

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten

Organizational unit Intelligent Networks
Contact +49 631 20575 3000 (Kaiserslautern)

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten

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Short Biography

Prof. Hans Schotten is the coordinator of the 6G Platform, the umbrella organization of the German 6G programme. He also heads one of the German 6G research hubs, the "Open6GHub".

Prof. Schotten has been Professor of Radio Communication and Navigation at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and Scientific Director and Head of the Intelligent Networks research department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI since 2007.

He is a member of the Council for Technological Sovereignty of the BMBF. From 2018 - 2013 he was Chairman of the "Informationstechnische Gesellschaft" in the VDE and a member of the VDE Executive Committee. He was and is a member and chairman of the scientific advisory board of various research institutes, is vice chairman of the Flexible Factory Partner Alliance FFPA, Japan and co-founder of the industry association 5G-ACIA.

Before joining the University of Kaiserslautern, Prof. Schotten worked for many years in industry at Ericsson and Qualcomm, most recently as Director of Technical Standards and Research Coordinator for Europe.

1984 – 1990  Study of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
1990 – 1999  Research Assistant at the Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Lüke) at the RWTH Aachen University
1997  PhD as Doctor of Engineering
1999 – 2003  Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Nürnberg. Senior Researcher, Ericsson Corporate Research
2003 – 2007  Qualcomm CDMA Technologies GmbH, Nürnberg. Research Coordinator, Qualcomm Europe, and Director, Technical Standards
2007 – today  Professor of Radio Communication and Navigation, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
2012 – today  Scientific Director, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and Head of the “Intelligent Networks” Research Department
2013 – 2014  Dean, Departement of Electrical Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern
2016 – 2023  Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IHP - Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
2018 – 2023  Chairman of the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) and member of the executive board of the Verband der Elektrotechnik (VDE)
2018 – today  Vice-Chairperson, Flexible Factory Partner Alliance, Japan
2021 – 2023  Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the IHP - Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics
2021 – today  Member of the Council for Technological Sovereignty of the BMBF

Advisor and Expert to several international companies, the German Federal Court and the International Chamber of Commerce

Main areas of expertise

  • Mobile communications, in particular, 5G design
  • Industrial communication solutions and wireless automation
  • Security in industry 4.0
  • Communication solutions for automotive and railway

  • ALPAKA

    Agile Lösungen für Produktionsautomaten mittels Kommunikationsabsicherung

    The aim of the project "Agile solutions for automated production machines using communication security" (ALPAKA) is to lay important technical foundations for secure communication in distributed…

    ALPAKA

  • InterOpera AAS

    InterOpera - Teilmodelle der Asset Administration Shell

    Das Hauptziel des Auftrages ist die Arbeit eines sogenannten Methodenberaters für die methodische Leitung eines Projekts zur Entwicklung von Teilmodellen der Asset Administration Shell.

    Bei …

    InterOpera AAS

  • 6G-Health

    Holistische Entwicklung leistungsfähiger 6G-Vernetzung für verteilte medizintechnische Systeme

    Research and development in the field of 6G, one of the key technologies for applications and infrastructure in the healthcare sector in the coming decade, is the focus of the 6G Health project.…

  • 6G-NeXt

    6G Native Extensions for XR (extended reality) Technologies

    Future services and applications, especially in the area of multimedia, will generate an unprecedented amount of data for industry, media and private users, which must be transmitted at a speed and…

    6G-NeXt

  • 6G-Terafactory

    Open-RAN basiertes Campusnetz für industrielle Echtzeitanwendungen

    The 6G-Terafactory project explores innovative 6G campus network technologies in practical field deployment. Building on an open RAN approach and using state-of-the-art software practices, a blueprint…

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