Alexander Raake

Alexander Raake (born 1971 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German electrical engineer and academic. He is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he heads the Chair and Institute for Communications Engineering (IENT). Until May 2025, he was a full professor at Ilmenau University of Technology (TU Ilmenau), where he led the Audiovisual Technology Group and served as Director of the Institute for Media Technology and of the Ilmenau Interactive Immersive Technologies Center (I3TC).

Early life and education Raake studied electrical engineering and physics at RWTH Aachen University and at Télécom ParisTech (ENST) in France. He obtained his Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in 1997, and subsequently spent time conducting research at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Academic and professional career After completing a postdoctoral appointment at LIMSI–CNRS in Orsay, France in 2005, Raake joined Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs), an an-institute of TU Berlin. Between 2005 and 2015, he held several positions at T-Labs, including assistant professor (from 2009) and associate professor (from 2013).

Entrepreneurship In addition to his academic work, Raake is a co-founder of AVEQ GmbH, a technology company specializing in video streaming performance and quality of experience (QoE) solutions. AVEQ was founded as a spin-off from Ilmenau University of Technology in 2018.

Research Raake's research focuses on audiovisual and immersive media technology, audiovisual perception and cognition, extended reality (XR), including augmented, virtual and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) and Social XR, multimedia networks, and methods for assessing quality of experience (QoE) and quality of service (QoS).

Awards and honors Raake has received several awards for his scientific contributions. He was honored with the Johann Philipp Reis Award in 2011. In 2007, he received the Award of the Information Technology Society (ITG) of VDE for outstanding research publications.