Georg Fischer was born in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, in 1965. He received a Diploma degree in electrical engineering with a focus on communications, electrodynamics, and microwave from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1992, and a Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1997. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Paderborn, where he was responsible for the Microwave and Antenna Lab. His PhD thesis dealt with adaptive antenna array systems for mobile satellite communications. From 1996 to 2008, he performed research within Bell Labs of Lucent, where he focused on the RF and digital architecture of cellular base stations for 2G/3G. In 2000, he became a Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and in 2001 a Bell Labs Consulting Member of Technical Staff. In 2007 he was nominated for Bell Labs Fellow. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Electronics Engineering at the FAU University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. He holds over 50 patents concerning microwave, communications, and biosensing.