Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication SystemsProf. Thomas Magedanz Appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has appointed Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz as an honorary professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. With this appointment, the university recognizes his long-standing academic collaboration and his commitment to international research networks.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has appointed Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Director of the Software-based Networks (NGNI) business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS and professor at the Technical University of Berlin, as an honorary professor for the period from 2026 to 2030.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has appointed Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Director of the Software-based Networks (NGNI) business unit at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS and professor at the Technical University of Berlin, as an honorary professor for the period from 2026 to 2030.
The appointment reflects decades of collaboration between Prof. Magedanz and UCT, which originated in joint research initiatives and close exchanges between TU Berlin and UCT’s Communications Research Group. Projects such as international research exchanges, joint publications, and the development of open test environments for the communication networks of the future characterize this partnership.
Prof. Magedanz is known worldwide for his contributions to software-based communication networks and for the development of open, vendor-neutral test environments such as OpenIMSCore, OpenEPC, and Open5GCore. These reference implementations are now internationally established tools for research, teaching, and industrial innovation in the field of 3G, 4G, 5G, and future 6G communication systems.
Prof. Magedanz began his first teaching assignment as an honorary professor as part of the annual telecommunications lectures at UCT – a start that inspires students and early-career researchers to engage with open 5G and future 6G network technologies. In the future, he will continue to collaborate closely with UCT, including in the context of Open6GNet, OpenRIT-6G, and DIGITAfrica.
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