Professor Harald Haas received the 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. Prof Haas set up and co-founded pureLiFi. He currently is the Chief Scientific Officer. He has co-authored more than 600 conference and journal papers. He has been among the Clarivate/Web of Science highly cited researchers continually since 2017. 

Haas’ research interests are in optical wireless communications and spatial modulation which he first introduced in 2006. Prof. Haas was twice an invited speaker at TED Global and his TED Talks have been watched more than 5 million times. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. He was the recipient of IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2019. In 2017 he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He was the recipient of the Enginuity The Connect Places Innovation Award in 2021. 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) as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).