Professor Hermann Rohling is a renowned specialist in the field of telecommunications, especially in the field of signal processing and estimation and decision theory, being a personality known and recognized worldwide for his contributions in these fields.

After defending his doctoral dissertation entitled “Adaptive Methods for Deafness in Pulsradargeräten mit Dopplerprozessoren” at the Technical University of Aachen, in 1988 he became a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig. There he headed the “Department of Signal Theory for Location and Information Technology” within the Institute of Telecommunications. Professor Rohling moved to the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH) eleven years later. Between July 2005 and September 2011 he was Vice President for Research at this technical university. In October 2010, he took over as president of the German Shipping Company (DGON). He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2006. Professor Rohling is a co-founder of Smart Microwave Sensors GmbH and is involved in over 30 patents.

Throughout his career, Professor Rohling has addressed the following areas of research: RADAR and telecommunications signal processing, self-organizing radio networks, high-frequency radar systems for tsunami detection, pedestrian detection and classification, target radio speed measurement techniques.