Former Director of TUM-IAS

Personal

Professional Address:
Technische Universität München
Institute for Advanced Study
Lichtenbergstraße 2 a
85748 Garching Germany

Education

1970	Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Thesis: Cascade Scattering Matrix Synthesis Thesis advisors: R.W. Newcomb, R.E. Kalman
1968	License in Mathematics, Belgian Central Examination Commission
1966	Electrical Engineer (M.Sc.), Catholic University of Leuven

Career

2013-present	Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of TUM
2008-2013	Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of Technische Universität München
2003-2007	Scientific Director of the ICT Delft Research Centre
2001-2007	Chairman of the Circuits and Systems Section of the Faculty EEMCS at TU Delft
1995-2004	Chairman of the Dutch Technology Foundation STW - the Dutch funding agency for academic research in Technology
2004-2006	Director of DIMES, the Delft Institute for Microelectronics and Submicron
1993-2001	Technology
1977-1993	Professor in Network Theory and Chairman of the CACD and Signal Processing Laboratory, Delft University of Technology
1975-1977	Associate Professor in Numerical Analysis, Catholic University of Leuven
1973-1976	Qualified Researcher in Circuit and System Theory and Numerical Mathematics, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
1971-1973	Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, University of Lagos Teaching Duties in Electronics and Microwave Techniques Head of the Electronics Laboratory and the Microwave Laboratory
1970-1971	Associate Researcher in Mathematics (ONR Fellow), University of California at Berkeley
1966-1968	Teaching Assistant in Electronics, Catholic University of Leuven

Awards / Honours

2013	Distinguished Affiliated Professor in Electrical Engineering, TechnischeUniversität München
2011	Vitold Belevitch IEEE Circuits and Systems Award
2007	Chairman of the Point-One Academic Council
2007	(Elected) Chairman of the ENIAC Scientic Community Council
2006	Knighthood of the Dutch Lion
2003	Humboldt Research Prize
2000	IEEE Circuits and System Society Golden Jubilee Medal
1994	Titulary of the Honorary Chair ’Vlaamse Leergangen 1994’ at the Catholic University of Louvain
1995	Honorary Medal of Delft University of Technology for advisorship of 25 Ph.D. graduates
1993	Elected Member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science
1985 & 1990	Meyerhoff Fellow at the Weizmann Institute
1988	Best paper award (International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications)
1981	IEEE Fellow for ’contributions to Network Theory, especially the synthesis of scattering matrices’
1970	ONR Postgraduate Fellow in Applied Mathematics
1966	Award for the ’Best Master Thesis’ by the Belgian Association of Engineers (K.VIV)