Chair of Microwaves and Photonics

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Curriculum Vitae

Martin Vossiek was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1964. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum in 1991 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the microwave and surface acoustic wave research group at Siemens, Munich, Germany. From 2000 to 2003, he headed the Microwave Systems Group at Siemens Corporate Technology and was responsible for product development in the field of commercial microwave sensor and communication systems.

In 2003, he moved to Clausthal University of Technology as a professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Information Technology. Since 2011, he has headed the Institute of Microwaves and Photonics (LHFT) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). LHFT is a world-leading center for microwave research and scholarship, employing four professors, four postdoctoral researchers, and about 50 Ph.D. students, as well as numerous student researchers. From 2019 to 2021, he was the spokesperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering (EEI) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at FAU. Martin Vossiek is one of the initiators and, since 2021, Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 1483 “EmpkinS” (https://www.empkins.de). Since 2022, he has been Co-Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group RTG 2680 “KoRaTo” (https://www.korato.de/), and he also serves as Co-Spokesperson of the DFG Research Unit FOR 5727 “3D-HF-MID” (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/528402728).

Mr. Vossiek has been engaged in research and development in microwave theory and techniques, radar systems, radar networks, local positioning systems, wireless motion capture and localization, imaging and localization algorithms, machine-learning- and neural-network-based radar signal processing, as well as wireless sensor systems, and RFID. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 papers in these areas, and his research has resulted in 125 granted patents. The rapid transfer of innovations into applications that advance daily life is the driving force behind his research. He has been involved in the founding of five high-tech start-up companies.

His research has been recognized by numerous honors and best paper awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the 2019 Microwave Application Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society for outstanding technical contributions in the field of microwave theory and techniques.

He is the current Speaker (term 2024–2028) of the DFG Review Board 4.42 “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.” He was elected as a member of the DFG Review Board for Panel 4.42-02 “Communication Technology and Networks, High-Frequency Engineering and Photonic Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Information Technology” for the terms 2020–2024 and 2024–2028. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Furthermore, Dr. Vossiek was the founding Chair and is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee (TC) MTT-27 “Connected and Autonomous Systems.” He is also a member of the IEEE MTT Technical Committee MTT-29 “Microwave Aerospace Systems” and the IEEE MTT Technical Committee MTT-24 “Microwave/mm-Wave Radar, Sensing, and Array Systems.” In addition, he is active in the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG) in the Microwave Technology specialist divisions: HF3 “Microwave Technology” and HF4 “Localization.”

Mr. Vossiek has served on the organizing and technical program committees of various international conferences and workshops. For example, he chaired the German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) in 2015, the European Radar Conference (EuRAD) in 2017, and the IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM) in 2018. He was Treasurer of the European Microwave Week (EuMW) in 2023 and is a designated General Co-Chair of the European Microwave Week (EuMW) in 2029.

From 2013 to 2019, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He serves on the editorial board of the journal FREQUENZ and has served on the review boards of technical journals, including IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Since October 2022, he has been Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems.

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