Steinmetz studied
electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), where he received his
doctorate in 1986 on the subject of modularized
Petri nets for the description and analysis of telecommunication systems with meshed information-processing structures. After further activities in research and management at
Philips and
IBM from 1987 to 1996, Steinmetz habilitated in 1994 at the department of computer science of the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University on the subject of multimedia technology and their fundamentals, components and systems. In 1996 he was appointed as professor for industrial process and system communication at TU Darmstadt. It was an endowed professorship of the Volkswagen Foundation. Since 1996, Steinmetz is professor at the
department of electrical engineering and information technology and the
department of computer science of TU Darmstadt. Since October 2001 he has been head of the Multimedia Communications Lab. In 1999, he founded the Hessian Telemedia Technology Competence Center (httc e.V.), of which he was chairman of the board until 2022. Steinmetz has contributed significantly to more than 900 publications and has written several textbooks on multimedia technologies, some of which are standard works in teaching. == Publications ==