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
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 |
2018
Culotta-López,
C.;
Bangun,
A.;
Behboodi,
A.;
Mathar,
R.;
Heberling,
D.
A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 40th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 239-244
Publisher: Williamsburg, VA (USA)
November 2018
A Compressed Sampling for Spherical Near-Field Measurements
AMTA 40th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 239-244
Publisher: Williamsburg, VA (USA)
November 2018
2017
Diewald,
A. R.;
Culotta-López,
C.
Concepts for Radar Target Simulation
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC)
Publisher: Loughborough (UK)
November 2017
Concepts for Radar Target Simulation
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC)
Publisher: Loughborough (UK)
November 2017
| DOI: | 10.1049/cp.2017.0229 |
Saporetti,
M. A.;
Foged,
L. J.;
Heras,
F.;
Alexandridis,
A. A.;
Culotta-López,
C.;
Kurdi,
Y.;
Sierra Castañer,
M.
International Facility Comparison Campaign at L/C Band Frequencies
AMTA 39th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
Publisher: Atlanta, GA (USA)
October 2017
International Facility Comparison Campaign at L/C Band Frequencies
AMTA 39th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
Publisher: Atlanta, GA (USA)
October 2017
| DOI: | 10.23919/AMTAP.2017.8123707 |
Alshrafi,
W.;
Al-Bassam,
A.;
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
Printed Yagi-Helix Antennas
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC)
Publisher: Loughborough (UK)
November 2017
Printed Yagi-Helix Antennas
Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC)
Publisher: Loughborough (UK)
November 2017
| DOI: | 10.1049/cp.2017.0261 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Wu,
K.;
Heberling,
D.
Radiation Center Estimation from Near-Field Data Using a Direct and an Iterative Approach
AMTA 39th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
Publisher: Atlanta, GA (USA)
October 2017
Radiation Center Estimation from Near-Field Data Using a Direct and an Iterative Approach
AMTA 39th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Page 1-6
Publisher: Atlanta, GA (USA)
October 2017
| DOI: | 10.23919/AMTAP.2017.8123714 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Dallmann,
T.;
Gerhardes,
F.
Simple antenna characterisation using multiple VNAs
Microwave Engineering Europe (MWee) :12-14
May 2017
Simple antenna characterisation using multiple VNAs
Microwave Engineering Europe (MWee) :12-14
May 2017
| File: | http://www.mwee.com/design-center/simple-antenna-characterisation-using-multiple-vnas |
2015
Wilke,
R.;
Reiffenrath,
M.;
Parow-Souchon,
K.;
Nardi,
C.;
Culotta-López,
C.;
Heberling,
D.
Communication System for Cubesats: Improving Downlink Capacity using S-Band and UHF
4. Nationale Konferenz Satellitenkommunikation in Deutschland
Publisher: Bonn (Germany)
March 2015
Communication System for Cubesats: Improving Downlink Capacity using S-Band and UHF
4. Nationale Konferenz Satellitenkommunikation in Deutschland
Publisher: Bonn (Germany)
March 2015
| File: | http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/465372 |
Culotta-López,
C.;
Schraml,
K.;
Wilke,
R.;
Heberling,
D.
The yagi-helix: A multi-director configuration for the backfire-helix antenna
European Radar Conference (EuRAD), Page 357-360
Publisher: Paris (France)
September 2015
The yagi-helix: A multi-director configuration for the backfire-helix antenna
European Radar Conference (EuRAD), Page 357-360
Publisher: Paris (France)
September 2015
| DOI: | 10.1109/EuRAD.2015.7346311 |
| File: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/7331815/7346207/07346311.pdf?tp=&arnumber=7346311&isnumber=7346207 |
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 |
