Quantum Communication Networks

Holger Boche received the Dr.rer.nat. degree in pure mathematics from the Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1998, the Dipl.Ing. and Dr.Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany in 1990 and 1994, respectively, and the degree in mathematics from the Technische Universität Dresden, in 1992. From 1994 to 1997, he was involved in postgraduate studies in mathematics with the Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Jena, Germany. In 1997, he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin, Berlin. In 2002, he was a Full Professor of mobile communication networks with the Institute for Communications Systems, Technische Universität Berlin. In 2003, he became the Director of the Fraunhofer German-Sino Laboratory for Mobile Communications,Berlin, and the Director of HHI in 2004. He was a Visiting Professor with ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, in Winter 2004 and 2006, and KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, in Summer 2005. Since 2010, he has been with the Institute of Theoretical Information Technology and a Full Professor with the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. He was elected asa member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008 and the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2009. Since 2014, he has been a member and an Honorary Fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, Munich. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM and the SPTM Technical Committee. He was a recipient of the Research Award Technische Kommunikation from the Alcatel SEL Foundation in 2003, the Innovation Award from the Vodafone Foundation in 2006, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation in 2008, and the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and a corecipient of the 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.