Karlheinz Brandenburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Karlheinz Brandenburg

German audio engineer

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1954

Place of Birth: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: engineer, audio engineer, mathematician, inventor, electrical engineer, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician.
Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression.
He is also known for his elementary work in the field of audio coding, the perception measurement, the wave field synthesis and psychoacoustics.
Brandenburg has received numerous national and international research awards, prizes and honors for his work.
Since 2000 he is Professor of Electronic Media Technology at the Technical University Ilmenau.
Brandenburg was significantly involved in the founding of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) and currently serves as its director.