Karlheinz Brandenburg

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