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Dr.-Ing

Thomas Kopacz

Research Assistant

E-mailkopacz@ihf.rwth-aachen.de

Career

Sep 2022 Data Scientist, Deutsche Telekom
Feb 2014 – Aug 2022 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen University
Oct 2014 – Jun 2015 Master Thesis, Development of a Tracking Algorithm for a Mobile Radar Imaging Device
Oct 2012 – Mar 2013 Internship at Rohde & Schwarz, Munich
Oct 2008 – Nov 2013 Studies of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering with Major Field of Study in Information and Communications Technology, RWTH Aachen University

Main Research and Projects

Car-to-Car Communication
EMCE
Center for European Research on Mobility (CERM)

Veröffentlichungen

2022

C. Bornkessel, L. Schilling, A. Schiffarth, T. Kopacz, D. Heberling and M. Hein, "Determination of maximal RF exposure to 5G massive MIMO base stations under non-line-of-sight conditions – Part 1: Theoretical and numerical investigations" in The 1st Annual Meeting of BioEM (BioEM 2022), Nagoya (Japan), 2022, pp. 133-137.
A. Schiffarth, T. Kopacz, C. Bornkessel, L. Schilling, M. Hein and D. Heberling, "Determination of maximal RF exposure to 5G massive MIMO base stations under non-line-of-sight conditions – Part 2: Verification by field measurements" in The 1st Annual Meeting of BioEM (BioEM 2022), Nagoya (Japan), 2022, pp. 137-144.

2021

S. Schießl, T. Kopacz and D. Heberling, "Towards a Crowdsourcing-Based EMF Exposure Monitoring: Evaluation of Smartphone Measurements Using Kriging" in 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Düsseldorf (Germany), Mar. 2021, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP51087.2021.9410984
S. Schießl, T. Kopacz, A. Schiffarth and D. Heberling, "Estimation of exposure levels from crowdsourcing-based Smartphone measurements" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM 2021), Ghent (Belgium), 2021, pp. 132-137.
A. Schiffarth, T. Kopacz and D. Heberling, "Influence of 5G UEs on Frequency-Selective Exposure Measurements on 5G Massive-MIMO Base Stations" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM 2021), Ghent (Belgium), 2021, pp. 392-396.
T. Kopacz, C. Bornkessel, M. Wuschek, S. Schießl, A. Schiffarth and D. Heberling, "Influence of beamforming on local exposure to massive MIMO 5G base stations" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM 2021), Ghent (Belgium), 2021, pp. 10-14.

2020

C. Bornkessel, T. Kopacz, D. Heberling and M. Hein, "Challenges for human exposure assessment to 5G massive MIMO base stations: A follow-up study" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM), Oxford (UK), Jun. 2020, pp. 401-405.
T. Kopacz, K. Schwalm, S. Schießl and D. Heberling, "Impact of subarray failures on the vertical compliance distance of 5G massive MIMO antennas" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM), Oxford (UK), Jun. 2020, pp. 311-315.
S. Schießl, T. Kopacz and D. Heberling, "Interpretation of the Physical Layer Measurements of Smartphones as Measures of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields" in 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen (Denmark), Mar. 2020.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP48036.2020.9135292
S. Schießl, T. Kopacz and D. Heberling, "Challenges in implementing a crowdsourcing-based EMF monitoring system using smartphones" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM), Oxford (UK), 2020, pp. 435–437.

Teaching

Exercises, Laboratories, Projects
Institute Project
Rechenübung Elektromagnetische Felder II (IK)
Communications Engineering Laboratory
Hochfrequenztechnisches Praktikum