Prof. Lajos Hanzo

Lajos Hanzo, received his Masters degree in electronics in 1976 and his Doctorate in 1983 from the Technical University of Budapest. In 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree by the University of Southampton, UK. During his 30-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been a member of academic staff in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he currently holds the Chair in Telecommunications and is head of the Communications Research Group.

Lajos Hanzo has co-authored 17 John Wiley/IEEE Press books totalling about 10 000 pages on mobile radio communications, and published about 865 research papers. He has also organised and chaired conference sessions, presented Tutorial/overview lectures, as well as presenting about 470 papers at international conferences. He has also presented a number of named lectures and keynotes.

Lajos is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Communications Society and the Vehicular Society as well as a Fellow of both the IEEE and the IEE/IET, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is acting as a Governor of the IEEE VTS as well as of ComSoc. Lajos is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press. has and been awarded a number of distinctions.

Currently he heads an academic research team working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/lh.