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Dr.-Ing.

Thomas Kopacz

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

E-Mailkopacz@ihf.rwth-aachen.de

Beruflicher Werdegang

Sep 2022 Data Scientist, Deutsche Telekom
Feb 2014 – Aug 2022 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen University
Apr 2013 – Okt 2013 Masterarbeit, Implementierung eines Tracking-Algorithmus für einen Handheld zur mobilen Radarbildgebung
Okt 2012 – Mär 2013 Praktikum bei Rohde & Schwarz, München
Dez 2013 – Jun 2014 Studium der Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik und Technischen Informatik mit Schwerpunkt Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik, RWTH Aachen University

Forschungsschwerpunkte und Projekte

Car-to-Car Communication
EMVU
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), Mä. 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), Mä. 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.

Lehre

Übungen, Praktika, Projekte
Institutsprojekt
Rechenübung Elektromagnetische Felder II (IK)
Kommunikationstechnisches Praktikum
Hochfrequenztechnisches Praktikum