Prof. h.c. Michael Schlicht

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Profesor Extraordinario (University of Navarra), Dipl. Ing. Michael Schlicht
Michael Schlicht was born in 1960 in Bamberg, Federal Republic of Germany. In 1973 he emigration to Southamerica (Argentina), He received his bilingual high school degree in Buenos Aires (Goethe-Schule). Back in Germany he studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, focusing on communication systems, radio technology and digital signal processing.

In 1990 he joined the Fraunhofer Arbeitsgruppe Integrierte Schaltungen (Fraunhofer AIS), the predecessor of Fraunhofer Institute Integrated Circuits (Fraunhofer IIS) widely known as the "home of MP3". In 1993 he assumed the responsibility of the group manager for integrated digital circuits running programs in the fields of communication and graphics rendering and acceleration engines.

Since 1995 he joined the newly established field of digital communication and radio broadcast business field at the Fraunhofer IIS. Since then he was involved in the development and program management of various projects in the terrestrial and satellite digital radio realm, including USA Digital Radio Corp. (now HD Radio), Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM30/DRM120) and Eureka 147 (DAB/DMB/DAB+), as well as Worldspace Inc. and XM Satellite Radio (now Sirius XM Radio) giving him a broad background of current and future digital radio evolutions in the field of digital broadcast.

After a long term cooperation between the Centro de Estudios e Ivestigaciones Tecnicas de Gipuzkoa (CEIT) and TECNUN, Michael Schlicht has been appointed Profesor Extraordinario at the University of Navarra for its Electrical and Electronically Engineering Faculty (TECNUN) in San Sebastian, Spain in 2004.

Since 2007 Michael Schlicht is heading the newly created department of Integrated Digital Terminals (IDT) developing next generation systems and receiver and chipset implementations for satellite and terrestrial transmission standards for digital radio broadcast.

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