Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Festag

Andreas Festag is a professor at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt and with the research and test center for vehicle safety CARISSMA. He is also deputy head at the Fraunhofer Application Center »Connected Mobility and Infrastructure«. Andreas has worked on various research projects for wireless and mobile communication networks and published more than 100 papers in journals, conference proceedings and workshops. His research is concerned with architecture, design and performance evaluation of wireless and mobile communication systems and protocols, with a focus on vehicular communication and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He is senior member of IEEE.

Andreas Festag received a diploma degree (1996) and Ph.D. (2003) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin. As researcher, he worked with the Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN) at Technical University Berlin, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) in Berlin, NEC Laboratories in Heidelberg, Vodafone chair Mobile Communication Systems at Technical University Dresden and Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (IVI).