Prof. Fady El-Nahal is a Professor at the Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich. He earned his Ph.D. in Optical Communications from the University of Cambridge in 2004. His research interests encompass high-speed communication systems, optical data communications, applications of WDM components for data communications, multi-wavelength fiber optic networks, guided-wave and free-space optical systems and components, tunable optical filters, and other functional devices for wavelength-division multiplexed optical networks. He also specializes in optics and SLM devices, telecommunications switches, holography, tunable lasers, and renewable energy.