Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Radu Popescu-Zeletin

born in 1947 in Bucharest, Professor at Technical University Berlin and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open communication Systems, (FOKUS). Popescu-Zeletin graduated at the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, before he gained his doctorate at the University of Bremen and a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Berlin. For many years Popescu-Zeletin was head of the Research and Development Department of the BERKOM project at Deutsche Telekom.

He has published numerous articles on distributed computer systems and applications. Popescu-Zeletin is an active member of standardization committees and a leading player in the development of telecommunication standards. As holder of the Chair of Open Communication Systems, he also plays a major role in the development of the division of “I-centric Communications”.