Dr.-Ing. | |
Cosme Culotta-López | |
Research Assistant | |
| culotta@ihf.rwth-aachen.de | |
| ORCID | orcid.org/0000-0002-6435-1702 |
Career
| Sep 2023 | Technical Marketing Specialist, Microwave Vision Group - Orbit/FR Israel |
| Jun 2021 – Mai 2023 | Senior RF Engineer, QuadSAT |
| Dec 2014 - Jun 2021 | Research Assistant, Institute of High Frequency Technology, RWTH Aachen University |
| Nov 2013 - Sep 2014 | Master's Thesis, Design of a feed for a parabolic dish antenna |
| Oct 2013 - Sep 2014 | Erasmus year at RWTH Aachen University attending courses of Electrical Engineering |
| Sep 2008 - Oct 2014 | Studies in Telecommunications Engineering with major fields of study in Communications and Electronics, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain |
Memberships
| 2022 – present | Member of the Board of Directors of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) |
| 2017 – present | Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) |
| 2009 – 2019 | IEEE Student Member |
Awards and Recognitions
| 08/03/2022 | 2nd Place Best Paper Award for the paper 'On the Uncertainty Sources of Drone-Based Outdoor Far-Field Antenna Measurements', Cosme Culotta-López, Stuart Gregson, Andrian Buchi, Carlo Rizzo, Diana Trifon, Snorre Skeidsvoll, Inès Barbary und Joakim Espeland | 43nd Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Denver, CO, United States of America |
| 13/04/2021 | 1st Place Best Paper Award for the paper 'Adaptive Sampling for Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements', Cosme Culotta-López and Dirk Heberling | 42nd Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Virtual |
| 02/11/2020 | 3rd Place Best Student Paper Award for the paper 'Polyhedral Sampling Structures for Phaseless Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements', Adrien Guth, Cosme Culotta-López, Johannes Maly, Holger Rauhut and Dirk Heberling | 42nd Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Virtual |
| 09/10/2019 | Best Technical Paper Award for the paper 'A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements', Cosme Culotta-López, Arya Bangun, Arash Behboodi, Rudolf Mathar and Dirk Heberling | 41st Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), San Diego, CA, United States of America |
| 09/10/2019 | 1st Place Best Student Paper Award for the paper 'Fast Spherical Near-Field Measurements on Arbitrary Surfaces by Application of Pointwise Probe Correction to Compressed Sampling Schemes', Cosme Culotta-López and Dirk Heberling | 41st Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), San Diego, CA, United States of America |
| 19/06/2019 | 3rd Place Best Student Paper Award for the paper 'A Reduced Sampling Scheme for Planar Near-field Measurements Using Pointwise Probe Correction in the Spherical Harmonics Basis', Cosme Culotta-López and Dirk Heberling | 41st Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, also known as Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Rome, Italy |
| 07/11/2018 | 2nd Place Best Student Paper Award for the paper 'A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements', Cosme Culotta-López, Arya Bangun, Arash Behboodi, Rudolf Mathar and Dirk Heberling | 40th Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) Symposium, Williamsburg, VA, United States of America |
| 30/10/2014 | Honors for the thesis 'Design of a feed for a parabolic dish antenna' | Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain |
Professional Service
| 2021 – present | Wiley's International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering | Reviewer |
| 2021 – present | EuMA International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies (IJMWT) | Reviewer |
| 2020 – present | IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) | Reviewer |
| 2019 – present | European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) | Reviewer |
Main Research and Projects
| Spherical near-field antenna measurements |
| General antenna measurement techniques |
| Compressed sensing |
| DFG-funded project: 'Compressed Sensing in the Spherical Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation' („Compressed Sensing in der sphärischen Nah- zu Fernfeldtransformation“, CoSSTra) |
Dissertation
Fast Near-Field Antenna Measurements by Application of Compressed Sensing
Publications
2020
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
Adaptive Sampling for Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 42nd Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: Newport, RI (USA)
November 2020
Adaptive Sampling for Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 42nd Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: Newport, RI (USA)
November 2020
Guth,
A.;
Culotta-López,
C.;
Maly,
J.;
Rauhut,
H.;
Heberling,
D.
Polyhedral Sampling Structures for Phaseless Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements
AMTA 42nd Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
November 2020
Polyhedral Sampling Structures for Phaseless Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements
AMTA 42nd Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
November 2020
| File: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9280883 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
On the Influence of the Transformation Matrix in Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Publisher: Copenhagen (Denmark)
March 2020
On the Influence of the Transformation Matrix in Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Publisher: Copenhagen (Denmark)
March 2020
| DOI: | 10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135206 |
2019
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
Fast Spherical Near-Field Measurements on Arbitrary Surfaces by Application of Pointwise Probe Correction to Compressed Sampling Schemes
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
Fast Spherical Near-Field Measurements on Arbitrary Surfaces by Application of Pointwise Probe Correction to Compressed Sampling Schemes
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
| DOI: | 10.23919/AMTAP.2019.8906445 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Walkenhorst,
B.;
Ton,
Q.;
Heberling,
D.
Practical Considerations in Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
Practical Considerations in Compressed Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
| DOI: | 10.23919/AMTAP.2019.8906454 |
Saporetti,
M.A.;
Foged,
L. J.;
Culotta-López,
C.;
Svensson,
B.;
Alexandridis,
A. A.;
Expósito,
I;
Alvarez-Lopez,
Y.;
Tercero,
F.;
Sierra Castañer,
M.
Recent Developments in International Facility Comparison Campaigns
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
Recent Developments in International Facility Comparison Campaigns
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
Culotta-López,
C.;
Chen,
Z.;
Gemmer,
T. M.;
Heberling,
D.
Validation of Electromagnetic Compatibility Chambers with a Spherical Wave Expansion Approach
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
Validation of Electromagnetic Compatibility Chambers with a Spherical Wave Expansion Approach
AMTA 41st Annual Meeting and Symposium
Publisher: San Diego, CA (USA)
October 2019
| DOI: | 10.23919/AMTAP.2019.8906406 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
A Reduced Sampling Scheme for Planar Near-Field Measurements Using Pointwise Probe Correction in the Spherical Harmonics Basis
Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium Proceedings (PIERS), Page 809-816
Publisher: Rome (Italy)
June 2019
A Reduced Sampling Scheme for Planar Near-Field Measurements Using Pointwise Probe Correction in the Spherical Harmonics Basis
Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium Proceedings (PIERS), Page 809-816
Publisher: Rome (Italy)
June 2019
| DOI: | 10.1109/PIERS-Spring46901.2019.9017792 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Moch,
R.;
Wilke,
R.;
Heberling,
D.
On the Influence of Probe Positioning Errors due to Mechanical Uncertainties in Spherical Near-field Measurements at Terahertz Frequencies in Modern Positioner Systems
Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium Proceedings (PIERS), Page 1883-1888
Publisher: Rome (Italy)
June 2019
On the Influence of Probe Positioning Errors due to Mechanical Uncertainties in Spherical Near-field Measurements at Terahertz Frequencies in Modern Positioner Systems
Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium Proceedings (PIERS), Page 1883-1888
Publisher: Rome (Italy)
June 2019
| DOI: | 10.1109/PIERS-Spring46901.2019.9017778 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Bangun,
A.;
Behboodi,
A.;
Mathar,
R.;
Heberling,
D.
A Modified Minimum-Coherence Sampling for Fast Spherical Near-Field Measurements
13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Page 869-873
Publisher: Krakow (Poland)
April 2019
A Modified Minimum-Coherence Sampling for Fast Spherical Near-Field Measurements
13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Page 869-873
Publisher: Krakow (Poland)
April 2019
Teaching
| Exercises, Laboratories, Projects |
|---|
| Rechenübung Elektromagnetische Felder II (IK) |
| Communications Engineering Laboratory |
| Hochfrequenztechnisches Praktikum |
Supervised Theses
| Master's Thesis | Influence of the Polarisation and Measurement Distance on the Near-Field-to-Far-Field Transformation Using Compressed-Sensing Methods |
| Master's Thesis | Analysis of the Sparsity of the Spherical Mode Coefficients depending on the Basis for Compressed Sensing Applications |
| Master's Thesis | Extension of an antenna measurement chamber for the implementation of cylindrical near-field measurements |
