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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

2018

T. M. Gemmer and D. Heberling, "Uncertainty Analysis Technique for Planar Field-Probing Measurements and Quiet-Zone Simulations of a Compact Antenna Test Range" in AMTA 40th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Williamsburg, VA (USA), Nov. 2018, pp. 1-6.
File:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8604241
W. Alshrafi, V. Ekaterinichev and D. Heberling, "Wideband Crossed Dipoles Antenna for All {GNSS} Bands Using Wideband {AMC}" in 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), London (UK), Apr. 2018.
DOI:10.1049/cp.2018.0905

2017

R. Moch, T. Dallmann and D. Heberling, "A Tomographic Approach to Polarimetric Radar Cross-Section Imaging" in 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Paris (France), Mar. 2017, pp. 3951-3955.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928491
S. Hamid and D. Heberling, "Analysis of Absorption Mechanism in a Planar Radome Absorber" in European Microwave Week (EuMW), Nuremberg (Germany), Oct. 2017, pp. 703-706.
DOI:10.23919/eumc.2017.8230944
A. Al-Bassam, S. Otto, D. Heberling and C. Caloz, "Broadside Dual-channel Orthogonal-Polarization Radiation using a Double-Asymmetric Periodic Leaky-Wave Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 2855-2864, Jun. 2017.
DOI:10.1109/TAP.2017.2691467
R. Cornelius, A. Narbudowicz, M. J. Ammann and D. Heberling, "Calculating the Envelope Correlation Coefficient Directly From Spherical Modes Spectrum" in 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Paris (France), Mar. 2017, pp. 3003-3006.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928132
R. Cornelius and D. Heberling, "Correction of Non-ideal Probe Orientations for Spherical Near-Field Antenna Measurements" in AMTA 39th Annual Meeting and Symposium, Atlanta (USA), Oct. 2017, pp. 394-398.
DOI:10.23919/amtap.2017.8123692
M. A. Saporetti, L. Foged, M. S. Castaner, S. Pivnenko, R. Cornelius and D. Heberling, "Description and Results: Antenna Measurement Facility Comparisons [Measurements Corner]", IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 108-116, Jun. 2017.
DOI:10.1109/MAP.2017.2686097
Hamid and D. Heberling, "Design and Oblique Incidence Performance of a Planar Radome Absorber" in 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Paris (France), Mar. 2017, pp. 3817-3821.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928815
K. Schraml, A. Narbudowicz, S. Chalermwisutkul, D. Heberling and M. J. Ammann, "Easy-to-deploy LC-loaded dipole and monopole antennas for cubesat" in 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Mar. 2017, pp. 2303-2306.
DOI:10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928135

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