Professor Ulrich Reimers is the chairman of the Technical Module of the DVB Project and is based at Braunschweig Technical University. He studied communication engineering at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Braunschweig Technical University), Germany. Following research at the university’s Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications Technology) he joined BTS Broadcast Television Systems in Darmstadt. Between 1989 and 1993 he was Technical Director of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg - one of the major public broadcasters in Germany. Since 1993 he has been a Professor at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig and Managing Director of the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications Technology).

He is chairman of the Technical Module within the DVB Project and a board member of Deutsche TV-Plattform (the German institution co-ordinating the interests of all organisations involved in TV). He is the author of more than 100 publications, including text books on DVB.

In 1995 Prof. Reimers was awarded the Montreux Achievement Gold Medal for his contributions to the development of the DVB technology. In 1998 he received the IBC John Tucker Award and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Television Society of the United Kingdom. In 1999 he received the J. J. Thomson Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). In June 2000 he was awarded the 1st class Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony (Germany) Order of Merit and in October 2000 he was awarded a Diploma of Honour of the National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters (HAT) of Russia. In 2001 he was the recipient of the Leibniz Ring and of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award. Prof. Reimers received the IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award 2002. In May 2004 he was awarded the Richard-Theile-Medaille of FKTG in Germany. In November 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE. In March 2006 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) made Prof. Reimers a member of their Hall of Fame.