Professor Harald Haas received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh in 2001. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Strathclyde/Glasgow, Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre (LRDC). Prof. Haas initiated and co-founded pureLiFi Ltd., where he holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). He has co-authored more than 650 conference and journal papers and holds more than 45 patents. He has been listed as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science since 2017. Prof. Haas has delivered two TED talks that have been viewed online more than 5.7 million times. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. In 2017, he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. In 2019, he received the IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award. In 2021, he received the Enginuity The Connect Places Innovation Award. In 2022, he was the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for his research achievements to date. He was shortlisted for the European Patent Office (EPO) Inventor Award in the category Research in 2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).