Mathias Coinchon (EBU)
Mathias Coinchon, Senior Engineer at EBU Technical department.
Mathias is also vice-chairman of WorldDMB TC and follows actively Digital Radio Mondiale consortium, Internet Media Devices Alliance (IMDA) and RadioDNS. He’s currently working on harmonisation of delivery technologies for Radio in Europe and the hybrid broadcast/broadband approach. Last February, he organised at EBU a successful Radio Week and Summit gathering these four organisations on the topic of harmonisation of radio delivery. From this event a proposal has emerged to initiate a European Digital Radio Forum to continue collaboration and promote a consistent and unified approach for future radio delivery.
Mathias Coinchon was born in 1975 and graduated in 2000 in communication systems engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Eurecom Institute in Sophia-Antipolis (France). He developed his diploma thesis at BBC R&D on Digital Radio Mondiale. He then worked as technical project manager at Wavecall, a start-up company active in the mobile communication networks planning.
Before joining the EBU in 2006, Mathias has been working for the Swiss Public Radio (RSR) on networks and has then been part of the team at SRG-SSR defining the re-launch of Digital Radio in Switzerland. In his spare time, he is involved in helping a community radio station and runs a website on open source techniques for Digital Radio.
