Harald Haas is Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, and Chief Scientific Officer of pureVLC Ltd. He is the inventor of Li-Fi, listed in Time magazine's '50 Best Inventions of 2011', and covered by international media channels such as the BBC, NPR, CNBC, The New York Times, Wired UK, New Scientist, and The Economist. His TED talk on the subject has been viewed nearly one and a half million times, and in 2012 he received a prestigious Fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK.