Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill

Curriculum vitae of Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill
1961 Born in Schwabach, Germany
1988 Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
1988-1995 Research Scientist at Fraunhofer IIS, audio coding technologies, most notable achievements ”mp3” and ”AAC”
1995-1998 Scientist at the department of Electrical Engineering Friedrich-Alexander-Univer- sity Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
1999-2000 Research Scientist at Fraunhofer IIS, Head of group ”Audio Research”
2001 PH.D. in electrical engineering
2000-2011 Head of department ”Audio” at Fraunhofer IIS. Responsible for management, development and standardization in the area multimedia and telecommunications
Since 2008 Initiation, Development and Management of the ”International Audio Laboratories Erlangen”
Since 2011 Division Director Audio & Multimedia
Since 2011 Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IIS
Awards
1992 Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Preis ”in recognition of work for ”Data Rate Reduction of digitally coded audio signals for transmission and storage” (together with Ernst Eberlein und Jürgen Herre)
1999 International Standardization Organisation (ISO) ”ISO Certificate for outstanding contributions” zum MPEG-4 Audio-Standard
2000 Audio Engineering Society (AES) ”AES-Fellowship-Award für Beiträge zur Audiocodierung und zur MPEG-4 Standardisierung”
2000 ”Zukunftspreis des deutschen Bundespräsidenten für die Entwicklung von MP3” (together with Karlheinz Brandenburg and Harald Popp)
Patents and Publications:
More than 30 publications and around 1510 international and U.S. patents in 82 patent families