Workshops
Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology
Meanwhile, major research and development fields have been pursued, such as:
- Cognitive radio including the Detect-And-Avoid (DAA) technology;
- Localization and tracking (LT);
- Open technology platforms and multiband concepts; and
- Application clusters like home environment, public transport, automotive and heterogeneous networks.
Organizer/Chairman: Peter Jung, Lehrstuhl für KommunikationsTechnik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
received the diploma (MSc equiv.) in physics from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1990, and the Dr.-Ing. (PhDEE equiv.) and Dr.-Ing. habil. (DScEE equiv.), both in electrical engineering with focus on microelectronics and communications technology, from University of Kaiserslautern in 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he became private educator (equiv. to reader) at University of Kaiserslautern and in 1998 also at Technical University of Dresden, Germany. From 1995 until February 1998 he has been involved in the ACTS project FRAMES (AC090) as the project team manager at the University of Kaiserslautern, also representing the University of Kaiserslautern in the FRAMES project Co-ordination Committee. In the scope of the ACTS project FRAMES he was involved in the development of joint detection algorithms and the definition of the TD-CDMA based mode of the FRAMES air interface proposal and the Core Task Demonstrator where he was the editor of a most important deliverable on the demonstrator concept. He left the University of Kaiserslautern in March 1998 and from March 1998 till May 2000 he was with Siemens AG, Bereich Halbleiter, now Infineon Technologies, as Director of Cellular Innovation and later Senior Director of Concept Engineering Wireless Baseband. In June 2000, he became Chaired Professor for Communication Technologies (KommunikationsTechnik) at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg. In 1995, he was co-recipient of the best paper award at the ITG-Fachtagung Mobile Kommunikation, Ulm, Germany, and in 1997, he was co-recipient of the Johann-Philipp-Reis-Award for his work on multicarrier CDMA mobile radio systems. Professor Jung served as chairman of the Fakultätentag für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (FTEI) e.V., and member of the board of VDE/VDI-GMM. He has been member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Springer Journal of Wireless Personal Communications. His areas of interest include wireless communication technology, software defined radio, and system-on-a-chip integration of communication systems.
Impact of Medical Devices using Electromagnetic Fields on Human Body
Dr. Dina Šimunić is full professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated in 1995 from University of Technology in Graz, Austria. In 1997 she was a visiting professor in ”Wandel & Goltermann Research Laboratory" in Germany, where she worked on a novel technique for measuring pulse electromagnetic fields (e.g., radars). Later that year, she was a visiting professor in "Motorola Inc", Florida Corporate Electromagnetics Laboratory, USA, where she worked on establishing measurement techniques for specific absorption rate (SAR), which was later on applied in IEEE Standard. Dr. Simunic is a IEEE Senior Member, and acts as a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility as well as IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and Bioelectromagnetics. She acts as a main organizer of the data base in World Health Organization, for the service of International EMF Project. From 1997 to 2000 she acted as a vice-chair of COST 244: “Biomedical Effects of Electromagnetic Fields”. In 2006 she is elected vice-chair of COST Domain Committee on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). She is author of approximately 100 publications in various journals and books, as well as her student text for wireless communications, entitled: “Foundations of Microwave Communications”. In the previous work, Dr. Simunic won three time the first prize for the best young scientists work, and in the recent past, acted as a mentor of 80 students in the field of wireless communications and electromagnetics, among whom several got the first prize on the University of Zagreb for their best student works. She is currently teaching “Theory of Electromagnetic Waves”, “Microwave Communications”, “Theory of Wireless Communications Systems” and “Biomedical Effects of Electromagnetic Fields”. Her research work (on the national level she had several scientific projects) comprises electromagnetic fields dosimetry and wireless communications.
