Since May 1, 2025, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Römer is heading the newly created Group of Signal Processing for Intelligent Sensor Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at TU Ilmenau.
Prof. Römer studied computer engineering at the TU Ilmenau and at McMaster University in Canada. After graduating in 2006, he completed his doctorate at the Communications Research Laboratory Group at TU Ilmenau and subsequently taught and researched as a postdoc in the university's Electronic Measurements and Signal Processing Group EMS. He received the EURASIP Best Dissertation Award for his research in 2013 and was a Carl Zeiss Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016 to 2017. He gained international scientific experience at the Technion in Haifa (Israel) and at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Brazil, among others.
In 2018, Prof. Florian Römer moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, where he established the junior research group "Signal Processing for Material Data Acquisition with Intelligent Sensor Technology "(SigMaSense") as group leader. As Chief Scientist, he is also responsible for the area of applied AI, signal processing and data analysis.
At TU Ilmenau, the scientist is dedicated to the development of novel architectures for sensor-based data acquisition and processing, with a particular focus on ultrasound imaging, process monitoring in manufacturing and AI-supported signal processing. Other topics include assistance systems for manual inspection processes, remote inspection, methods for signal reconstruction and the systematic use of AI for data analysis and knowledge acquisition.
Prof. Florian Römer is also involved in several scientific committees. He is a (Senior) Area Editor on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since 2020, was an elected member of the Technical Area Committee Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems of EURASIP from 2019 to 2024 and is the Co-Head of the Thuringia Working Group of the DGZfP (German Society for Non-Destructive Testing) since 2023.
Prof. Römer lives with his family in Ilmenau, is married and has three children. In his free time, he is involved in music and is the second chairman of the Ilmenau Bach Choir, among other things, and his hobbies include nature, photography and music.