Harald Haas

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Harald Haas FRSE (born 1968 in Neustadt an der Aisch) is a German [1] engineer. He joined the University of Cambridge in April 2024 as Van Eck Professor of Engineering. [2] He was formerly Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Strathclyde [3] and is the person who coined the term Li-Fi. [4] In 2012 he was one of the co-founders of pureVLC (now pureLiFi). [5] Haas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017 [6] and of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019. [7]

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  1. ↑ "TED Profile".
  2. ↑ "Professor Harald Haas appointed to the Van Eck Professorship of Engineering". Department of Engineering. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  3. ↑ "Prof Harald Haas | School of Engineering" . Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "The Future'S Bright - The Future'S Li-Fi". The Caledonian Mercury. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Company" . Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "RSE Welcomes 60 New Fellows" (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Harald Haas". Royal Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 25 February 2025.