Harald Haas
German IT lecturer (born 1968)
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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]
