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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

2017

R. Cornelius and D. Heberling, "Spherical Near-Field Scanning With Pointwise Probe Correction", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 995-997, Feb. 2017.
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2016.2633952
R. Cornelius and D. Heberling, "Spherical Wave Expansion With Arbitrary Origin for Near-Field Antenna Measurements", {IEEE} Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 4385-4388, Aug. 2017.
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2017.2708099

2016

T. M. Böbel (Freialdenhoven), M. Rabel, T. Dallmann and D. Heberling, "A frequency steerable Substrate-Integrated Waveguide slot antenna for 77 GHz radar application" in German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), Bochum (Germany), Mar. 2016, pp. 325-328.
DOI:10.1109/GEMIC.2016.7461622
T. Dallmann, M. Röding, D. Heberling and R. S. Thomä, "A small-angle approximation for bistatic polarimetry" in 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos (Switzerland), Apr. 2016, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481197
M. Röding, T. Dallmann, R. S. Thomä and D. Heberling, "Bistatic imaging of linear structures for polarimetric ultrawideband radar" in 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos (Switzerland), Apr. 2016, pp. 1-5.
DOI:10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481638
M. Dirix, R. Cornelius and D. Heberling, "Calculating Arbitrarily Located Sampling Data From Quiet Zone Spherical Near-Field Scanning Measurements", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 865-871, Mar. 2016.
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2016.2515118
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7373557&isnumber=7422861
A. Narbudowicz, M. Ammann and D. Heberling, "Combining Reconfigurable Antennas into Linear Array for Dual-Plane Beamsteering" in 21st International Conference on Microwave, Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON), Krakow (Poland), May 2016, pp. 1-4.
R. Cornelius, D. Heberling, N. Koep, A. Behboodi and R. Mathar, "Compressed Sensing Applied to Spherical Near-field to Far-field Transformation" in 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos (Switzerland), Apr. 2016, pp. 1-4.
DOI:10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481140
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7481140&isnumber=7481093
J. Slim, D. Heberling, J. Felder and N. J. Shah, "Conceptualization, design and simulation of a hybrid antenna system as a simultaneous RF hyperthermia applicator at 600 MHz and RF coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3 Tesla" in German Microwave Conference (GeMiC), Bochum (Germany), Mar. 2016, pp. 116-119.
DOI:10.1109/GEMIC.2016.7461570
File:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/7455737/7461526/07461570.pdf?tp=&arnumber=7461570&isnumber=7461526
J. Slim, H. Soltner, F. Rathmann, R. Gebel, A. Nass, H. Straatmann, B. Lorentz, D. Hölscher, F. Hinder, F. Trinkel, S. Mey, J. Wolters, L. Reifferscheidt, A. Lehrach and D. Heberling, "Electromagnetic Simulation and Design of a Novel Waveguide RF Wien Filter for Electric Dipole Moment Measurements of Protons and Deuterons", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 828, pp. 116-124, 2016.
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.012

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