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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.
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