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Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Dirk Heberling
Institute Director
Institute of High Frequency Technology
RWTH Aachen University
Melatener Straße 25
52074 Aachen
Germany
Room329, ground floor
Telephone+49 241 80-27932
Fax+49 241 80-22641
E-mailheberling@ihf.rwth-aachen.de

Career

2016 - now Institute director of Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR
2008 - now Chair holder and institute director of the Institute of High Frequency Technology, RWTH Aachen University
2003 - 2008 Head of Information and Communication Systems department at IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort
1995 - 2003 Head of Antenna department at IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort after a restructuring in 1998 Head of Antennas and EMC department
1993 - 1994 Group leader Antenna Measurements at IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort
1987 - 1993 Research Assistant at Institute of High Frequency Technology, RWTH Aachen University

Education

1987 - 1993 PhD with distinction 1993 Topic: Conformal microstrip antennas
1981 - 1987 Studies of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University Specialization: Communications engineering

Boards and Committees

since 2016 DFG Review Board Member Subject No. 408-02 Communications and High Frequency Engineering, Communications Technology and Networks, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
since 2016 Member of the Board of Directors of AMTA (Antenna Measurement Techniques Association)
2002 – 2003, since 2014 Chairman of the ITG Expert Committee 7.1 "Antennas"
since 2012 German delegate and grant holder of the European antenna competence project COST IC1102
since 2012 Scientific Advisory Board of ZESS (Zentrum für Sensorsysteme, Siegen)
since 2010 Curator of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft for the FHR
since 2009 Co-organizer of the annual international antenna conference EuCAP
since 2008 Member of the Steering Committees EuCAP
since 1998 Chairman of the ITG Expert Committee 7.1 "Antennas"
since 1998 Contributor to the European antenna competence projects COST 260, COST 284, IC0603 and IC1102
2014 General Chair and Organizer of the German Microwave Conference GeMiC 2014, March 2014, Aachen, Germany
2009 Scientific Advisory Board of FGAN (Forschungsgesellschaft für angewandte Naturwissenschaften, Wachtberg-Werthhofen)
2002 - 2007 German delegate of the European antenna competence project COST 284
2003 Organisator der internationalen Antennenkonferenz INICA 2003, September 2003, Berlin
2002 - 2003 Co-initiator of the European Antenna Excellence Network ACE

Memberships

VDE
IEEE

Patents

DE 10 2004 026 133 A1 Sendeanordnung, Empfangsanordnung, Transceiver sowie Verfahren zum Betreiben einer Sendeanordnung 28.05.2004
US 2005/0277399 A1 Transmitting arrangement, receiving arrangement, transceiver and method for operation of a transmitting arrangement 27.05.2004

Pulications

2023

A. -. Schiffarth and D. Heberling, "Future Exposure Development With 5G Massive-MIMO due to Higher Network Utilisation" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM 2023), Oxford (UK), 2023, pp. 56-59.
L. -. Schilling, A. -. Schiffarth, C. Bornkessel, D. Heberling and M. Hein, "Ray tracing-based analysis of extrapolation factors for RF exposure to 5G massive-MIMO base stations" in The Joint Annual Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (BioEM 2023), Oxford (UK), 2023, pp. 319-320.
A. C. Granich, M. S. Sözer and D. Heberling, "Simulation Based Uncertainty Analysis for Radiation Pattern Measurements Using an Active Radar Module" in 2023 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Renton, WA, USA, Oct. 2023, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.23919/AMTA58553.2023.10293444
File:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10293444

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.
R. Moch and D. Heberling, "Fast Spline-Based Antenna Measurements for Robotic Test Ranges via Pointwise Probe Correction" in 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid (Spain), 2022, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9769401
A. -. Schiffarth and D. Heberling, "Interference compatibility tests on critical medical devices against 5G mobile radio for indoor coverage" in The 1st Annual Meeting of BioEM (BioEM 2022), Nagoya (Japan), 2022, pp. 501-503.
R. Moch and D. Heberling, "Maximum Determinant Sampling Using Spline-Based Trajectories in a Robot-Based mm-Wave Antenna Test Range" in 44th Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Denver, CO (USA), Oct. 2022, pp. 1-6.
DOI:10.23919/amta55213.2022.9954952
A. C. Granich, R. Moch, A. Al-Bassam and D. Heberling, "Radiation Pattern Measurements using an Active Radar Module" in 44th Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Denver, CO (USA), Oct. 2022, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.23919/AMTA55213.2022.9955018
File:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9955018
R. Moch and D. Heberling, "Robot-Based Antenna Measurements" in Short Course on the Application of Robotics for Antenna Measurements, 44th Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium (AMTA), Denver, CO (USA), Oct. 2022.

Teaching

Lectures
Elektromagnetische Felder 2 (IK)
High Frequency Technology – Passive RF Components
High Frequency Technology – Antennas and Wave Propagation
Moderne Kommunikationstechnik – EMV für Mensch und Gerät