Prof. Dr. Ing. Habil. Thomas Magedanz

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Prof. Magedanz is an outstanding computer sciences and telecommunications expert placing a strong emphasis on applied research in order to link academia and industry within an emerging global networking and services market. Since more than 20 years Prof. Magedanz is performing pioneering research and globally recognized education courses for master, diploma and PhD students in the field of converging fixed and mobile telecommunications, the internet and information technologies. In this context he has initiated and managed numereous national and international R&D projects centered around Next Generation Service Delivery platforms on top of both legacy and next generation networks based on worldwide recognized technology testbeds. He received his Diploma and his Ph.D. in computer sciences from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1988 and 1993, respectively. In 2000 he finished his “Habilitation” for Applied Computer Sciences at Technical University of Berlin. In 1989 he joined as the first research associate the Department for Open Communication Systems (OKS) of the Technical University Berlin and helped to set up the chair. After his PhD he became assistant professor and continued his education and research activities with a strong focus on distributed computing and telecommunications. Besides his employment as university lecturer and researcher he has been involved in several international strategic studies and research projects related to Intelligent Networks, Telecommunications Management Systems, Personal/Mobile Communications, TINA/Next Generation IN, and Mobile Agents / mobile Middleware within Deutsche Telekom AG, EURESCOM and the European RACE / ACTS / IST research programmes. From 1996 - 1998 he chaired the "Intelligent Communication Environments" research department at the GMD Research Center (now being part of Fraunhofer) for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), where he was responsible for several projects related to the evolution of service delivery platforms in face of most recent IT, namely IN, TINA, CORBA, J2EE, Intelligent/Mobile Agents. In those days he has lead the development of the globally recognized Grasshopper Mobile Agent Platform. From 1998 –2002 he worked as R&D coordinator for the IKV++ Technologies AG, a spin-off company of GMD FOKUS, which provided consultancy services and developed advanced telecommunication middleware and service products. In 2002 Thomas Magedanz has been called as full university professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences faculty at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the new chair for next generation networks (called Architektur der Vermittlungsknoten - AV in German), sponsored by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, where he is concentrating on the education of master and PhD students, performing special lectures and project courses in the field of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based service delivery platforms for converged media and commuciations services on top of next generation networks. In addition, he acts as managing director of the “next generation network infrastructure” competence center of the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/ngni), which also provides various testbeds and tools in the context of Next Generation Networks and Open Converged Service Delivery Environments. The most popular ones include the Open IMS Playground (www.open-ims.org) established in 2004 and the Open Source IMS Core System (www.openimscore.org) published in 2005. In 2007 he opened the new Open SOA Telco Playground (www.opensoaplayground.org) for IMS/SDP/Web2.0/SOA service prototyping and supported the setup of the FOKUS Media Interoperability Laboratory (www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/mil/) for interactive community IMS/IPTV and converged multimedia services. In 2007 Prof. Magedanz joined the European FIRE (Future Internet Research Facilties) Expert Group as distinguished member and leads the service orientation of European testbeds. In the course of his research activities he published more than 200 technical papers/articles. In addition, Prof Magedanz is senior member of the IEEE, and editorial board member of several journals. In 2006, Prof Magedanz has been assigned as Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Cape Town, South Africa (www.ee.uct.ac.za). Since 2007, he is also Visiting Professor to the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland (http://www.wit.ie). Currently is preparing a cooperation with the Hanoi University for Technology in Vietnam.

Since December 2010 Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz is Editorial Board Member (Associated Editor) of the Springer Journal for Wireless Networks (WINET), The Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, ISSN:  1022-0038  (print version), ISSN:  1572-8196  (electronic version), http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11276.

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