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Jürgen Herre joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen, Germany, in 1989. Since then he has been involved in the development of perceptual coding algorithms for high quality audio, including the well-known ISO/MPEG-Audio Layer III coder (aka "MP3"). In 1995, Dr. Herre joined Bell Laboratories for a Post-Doctoral term working on the development of MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). By the end of ‘96 he went back to Fraunhofer IIS to work on the development of more advanced multimedia technology including MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-D, MPEG-H and MPEG-I, currently as the Chief Executive Scientist for the Audio and Media Technologies division at Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen. In September 2010, Dr. Herre was appointed professor at the University of Erlangen and the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen.
Dr. Herre is a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and co-chair of the AES Technical Committee on Coding of Audio Signals. He has served as vice chair of the AES Technical Council for 25 years. He is a senior member of the IEEE, served as a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing and as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and was a long-time active member of the MPEG audio standardization group.
Dr. Herre was a recipient of two Fraunhofer Awards in 1992 and 2004, respectively, of the Eduard-Rhein Award in 2015, and the IEEE Industrial Innovation Award in 2020.