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Das Netzwerk von terahertz.NRW wird von einem interdisziplinären Team aus führenden Wissenschaftler*innen und Expert*innen der Terahertz-Technologie geleitet. Gemeinsam treiben wir Forschung und Entwicklung auf globalem Niveau voran.

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Ilona Rolfes

Standortsprecher

Nils Pohl

Standortsprecher

Jan Barowski

Carsten Brenner

Hochfrequenzsysteme

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Prof. Dr.-Ing. 

E-Mail: ilona.rolfes@rub.de
Standortsprecher

Website: etit.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/hfs

Research Interests: High Frequency and, Terahertz Systems, Material Characterization, Radar Systems, Sensing Systems, Imaging Systems

Highlights: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech
Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Outstanding Young Engineer Award der IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society

Research Stays: Grenoble (France), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization, Environmental Monitoring

Institute of Integrated Systems

Dr.-Ing.

E-Mail: nils.pohl@rub.de
Standortsprecher

Website: etit.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/insys

Research Interests: Millimeter-Wave, Terahertz, Radar, Integrated Circuits, System Design

Highlights: 2023 ITG Award of the Information Technology Society in the VDE (ITG)
2018 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding young engineer award
2013 Karl-Arnold Price from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization, Material Characterization, Medical Technology, Environmental Monitoring

Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenzsysteme

2017 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: Millimeterwaves / THz-waves, Radar Imaging, Material Characterization, Signal Processing, Measurement Techniques

Highlights: Best Paper Award in IEEE Antennas & Propagation Letters 2023
Best Paper Award in IEEE Sensors Letters 2023
Doctoral Research Award IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2016

Research Stays: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization, Material Characterization

Photonics and Terahertz Technology

Research Interests: Terahertz Technology, Semiconductor Lasers, Material Characterisation, Signal Processing

Highlights: Winner of Optica Simulight Optics Challenge 2024

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization, Medical Technology

Martin Hoffmann

Martin Hofmann

Christian Klaes

Ute Krämer

Chair for Microsystems Technology

PhD at Universität Dortmund (Hochfrequenztechnik), Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: THz and optical waveguides on silicon, RF MEMS, Microactuators, Passive sensing systems

Highlights: Industrial background

Research Stays: TU Ilmenau, Director of IMN MacroNano

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization, Environmental Monitoring

Photonics and Terahertz Technology

1994, Prof. Dr. rer.nat.

Research Interests: Semiconductor lasers, Terahertz Technology, Optical Imaging, Laser Technology, Spin-Optoelectronics

Highlights: Kaiser-Friedrich-Research Award 2003
Innovation competition „Medizintechnik“ of the BMBF 2006
Reinhart Koselleck Project “Electrically injected spin-vertical cavity surface emitting lasers for ultrafast data communication” 2022

Research Stays: University College Cork, Ireland, Tele Danmerk Research, Hoersholm Denmark, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization, Environmental Monitoring

Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Neurotechnology, medical faculty

PhD from Georg-August University Göttingen

Website: www.klaeslab.de

Research Interests: Recording neural data using THz, Brain Computer Interfaces, VR, Medical AI

Highlights: 2016 Emmy Noether award, DFG.

Research Stays: Caltech, USA

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Medical Technology

Lehrstuhl für Molekulargenetik und Physiologie der Pflanzen

University of Oxford, UK. Prof. Dr.

Research Interests: Genome-enabled functional genomics, Molecular and cell biology, Plant physiology, Ecology and evolutionary biology

Highlights: ERC Advanced Grant (2017 call)
Member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina (2021)
Thomson Reuters ‘Highly Cited Researcher’, Plant & Animal Science (2014/15/16)

Research Stays: (University of Oxford (UK), Rutgers University, AgBiotech Center(USA),
University of Bielefeld, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant
Physiology Golm, University of Heidelberg

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Environmental Monitoring

Thomas Musch

Clara Saraceno

Georg Schmitz

Christian Schulz

Lehrstuhl für Elektronische Schaltungstechnik

1999, Ruhr University Bochum, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: Radar, Electronic Circuit Design, Microwave to Terahertz, Frequency Synthesis, Electronic Tomography Systems

Highlights: EEEfCOM-Innovation Award, Radio Tec
Karl-Arnold-Award of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts
European Radar Award of the European Microwave Association

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization, Material Characterization

Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science

Prof. Dr.

Research Interests: Laser Sources, Terahertz Science and technology, Nonlinear optics, Ultrafast Optics, Sensing and Imaging

Highlights: High power lasers
High-power broadband Terahertz sources
Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization

Lehrstuhl für Medizintechnik

Dr.-Ing. from Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, Terahertz imaging, Image reconstruction, Ultrasound imaging, Image and signal processing / AI

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization

Institute of Microwave Systems

Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr
University Bochum, Germany, Topic „Novel sensor concepts for plasma
diagnostics”

Research Interests: Radar Technology, Sensors Design, 3D EM Simulations, Antenna Design, Plasma Diagnostics

Highlights: 2022 European Radar Conference Price
2016 Gert Massenberg Award
2016 CST® University Publication Award

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Environmental Monitoring

Aydin Sezgin

Kristina Tschulik

Marcel van Delden

Digitale Kommunikationssysteme

Dr.-Ing. From TU Berlin

E-Mail: aydin.sezgin@rub.de

Website: dks.rub.de

Research Interests: 6G communications, Sensing & Sensing Security, Terahertz, Non-destructive testing, Physics-based machine learning

Highlights: Emmy-Noether-Research Grant
Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2019

Research Stays: Stanford University, University of California Irvine

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization

Analytische Chemie II, Elektrochemie und Nanoskalige Materialien

PhD Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)

Research Interests: Nanomaterial syntheiss and characterization, Electrocatalysis, Electrochemical Sensing, Spectro-electrochemical Mmethod development, Confinement effects in chemistry

Highlights: Development of Laser-induced nanoparticle synthesis

Lehrstuhl für Elektronische Schaltungstechnik

2024, Ruhr University Bochum, Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: Radar, Microwave to Terahertz Systems, Integratd Circuits, Frequency Synthesis, Phase Noise

Highlights: 1st place International Microwave Symposium 2023 Three Minute Thesis Competition
Co-recipient EuMIC 2021 Best Student Paper Award

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Thomas Kaiser

Standortsprecher

Daniel Erni

Standortsprecher

Jan Balzer

Niels Benson

Digitale Signalverarbeitung

Gerhard-Mercator Universität Duisburg, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

E-Mail: thomas.kaiser@uni-due.de
Standortsprecher

Website: dsv.uni-due.de

Research Interests: THz systems, RFID systems

Highlights: Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center “Mobile Material
Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing“ 2017-2028

Research Stays: Postdoc scholarship at University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, USA, 1995-1996
Visiting professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA, 2005
Visiting professor at Princeton University, Princeton, USA, 2007

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization

Allgemeine und Theoretische Elektrotechnik (ATE)

PhD from ETH Zürich

E-Mail: daniel.erni@uni-due.de
Standortsprecher

Website: www.uni-due.de/ate

Research Interests: RF/THz engineering, (nano) photonics, Computational electromagnetics, Bioelectromagnetics, Science and technology studies (STS).

Highlights: Winner of the APMC 2023 Microwave Prize
CST University Publication Award 2013
Fellow of The Electromagnetics Academy

Research Stays: ETH Zürich, Institut Fresnel (CNRS und Universié Aix Marseille

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Environmental Monitoring

Nachrichtentechnische Systeme

Ruhr Universität Bochum, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: THz-TDS, THz SAR Imaging, THz Biosensors, Insect monitoring

Research Stays: 2023 University of Adelaide

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization
Environmental Monitoring

Institute of Technology for Nanostructures

Research Interests: Printable materials for Signal Processing Applications, Thin Film and 3D-Printed Technologies, Disordered Semiconductors, Charge Carrier Transport, Flexible Electronics

Highlights: Startup – airCode
Printable Si Diodes operating at frequencies > 5GHz
Additively Manufactured Ceramic Technology for THz applicatons

Research Stays: University of Tsukuba, University of Waterloo, National Research
Council Ottawa, Canada

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization
Medical Technology

Andreas Czylwik

Mohammed El-Absi

Elsa Kirchner

Nils Weimann

Nachrichtentechnische Systeme

TU Darmstadt, Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: Radio communications, Beamforming, Terahertz frequency applications, Technical security systems 

Highlights: Fred W. Ellersick Prize 2015 of the IEEE Communications Society
Chairman of the European Society of Automatic Alarm Systems (EUSAS) 

Research Stays: NTT DoCoMo, Yokosuka, Japan

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization
Environmental Monitoring

Digitale Signalverarbeitung

PhD from UDE Duisburg

Research Interests: Wireless Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Localization, 6G wireless technology and applications, Signal Processing

Highlights: DFG Mercator Fellow (2017)
Summa Cum Laude in PhD (2015)

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization

Institute of Medical Technology Systems

Dr. rer. nat. from University of Bremen

Research Interests: Neurophysiological Data Analysis, Brain, Computer Interface, Human Robot Interaction, Rehabilitation Robotics, Medical AI

Highlights: Best Practice Project – NoGravEx
Best Student Paper Award for supervised PhD student
Best Teacher Awards

Research Stays: “Stiftung Familie Klee” award for a one-year research stay at MIT (Cambridge, USA) with Prof. M.A. Wilson at the Center of Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science.

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Medical Technology

Bauelemente der Höchstfrequenzelektronik

PhD from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Research Interests: THz components, InP and GaN epitaxy and device technology, Resonant Tunneling Diodes and Heterojunction, Bipolar Transistors
MMIC design, Module and Package technology 

Highlights: General Chair, 2024 German Microwave Conference in Duisburg
IEEE MTT TC-21 Committee Chair, Terhahertz Systems and Applications

Research Stays: UDE; Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Berlin; Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ;
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization
Environmental Monitoring

Nicole Krämer

Stephanie Rehwald

Andreas Rennings

Dirk Schadendorf

Human-Centered Computing and Cognitive Science

PhD

Research Interests: Human Technology Interaction, Trust in Technology, Technology Acceptance, Communication of technology attributes, Human Robot Interaction

Highlights: Expert in experimental Research
20 years of high-impact publications in Human Technology Interaction
Numerous third party projects on Human Technology Interaction

Research Stays: 2002/2003 Cambridge University

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Medical Technology

Universitätsbibliothek, Research Data Services

Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf

Research Interests: Research Data Management, Information Science, Open Science

Highlights: Fellow Helmholtz Graduate School “Biosoft”
Head of Landesinitiative fdm.nrw, Co-Author “FDM Landeskonzept NRW”
Erasmus+ network “EuDaNOS”

Research Stays: University College Dublin, Ireland

Allgemeine und Theoretische Elektrotechnik (ATE)

PhD from UDE

Research Interests: Theoretical, applied and computational electromagnetics, Antennas in general, on-chip antennas, Near-field probes, also active, Field-based measurement systems, RF coils for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Highlights: APMC 2023 Microwave Price
Best Paper Award, UCMMT 2017
VDE Promotionspreis

Research Stays: UCLA, IMST

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Environmental Monitoring

Dermatologie

1986 Universitätsklinikum Hamburg

Research Interests: Tumor biology, Tumor immunology, Melanoma etc.

Highlights: Fleur-Hiege Memory prize, Wilhelm-Warner-Foundation Prize for Cancer research, German Cancer Award (DKG)

Research Stays: Max Planck Institute Berlin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York 

Research area within terahertz.NRW: 

Thorsten Schultze

Fawad Sheikh

Andreas Stöhr

Max Planck Institute

2010

Research Interests: Automatic fire detection, Broadband microwave and THz analyses for fire and security applications, Scattered light simulation and measurement, Aerosol analysis

Highlights: Secretary of the European Society for Automatic Alarm Systems
e.V. (EUSAS e.V.)
Member of vfdb Section 14: Technical fire protection systems 

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization
Environmental Monitoring

Institute of Digital Signal Processing

Dr.-Ing. degree from the Universität Duisburg-Essen

Research Interests: 6G THz Communications, THz Monitoring for Life Sciences, Ray-Tracing based Algorithms, Computational Dosimetry Studies on Humans and Insects (RF to THz), THz Human Phantoms & Absorbers

Highlights: CEO, The Mobile THz Company (StartUp)
Financial Chair, IEEE ICM²TS Conference
Certified Project Management Professional (since 2011)

Research Stays: University of Southern California, University of Glasgow, UAE University

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Environmental Monitoring

Department of Optoelectronics

1997, Prof. Dr.

Research Interests: InP/SiN Photonic, Photodiodes and Lasers, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC), THz Communications, THz Radar and Imaging, Radio Frequency over Fiber

Highlights: Founder & CEO of Microwave Photonics GmbH
Co-Chair Center for Semiconductor Technol. and Optoelectronics (ZHO)
Terahertz Photodiodes

Research Stays: Corning Incorporated, NY, USA and NICT, Tokyo, Japan

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Medical Technology 

Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Ullrich Pfeiffer

Standortsprecher

Daniel Neumaier

Standortsprecher

Guillaume Delaittre

Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenzsysteme in der Kommunikationstechnik

University of Heidelberg (1999), Prof. Dr.

Research Interests: RF/THz engineering, THz electronics, CMOS Sources, Analog Circuit Design, High Speed Communication

Highlights: Two-time winner of the “Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding
European Paper“ at IEEE ISSCC
Member THz research network at University of Wuppertal
Grantee H2020-EU.1.1. – EXCELLENT SCIENCE – European Research
Council (ERC) advanced grant

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Medical Technology

Chair of Smart Sensor Systems

PhD from University of Regensburg

E-Mail: dneumaier@uni-wuppertal.de
Standortsprecher

Research Interests: Two-dimensional Materials, Thin-Film Technology, THz detectors, Memristors

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization

Organic Functional Molecules

PhD from Sorbonne Université Paris

Research Interests: Macromolecular Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Surface Functionalization, Biotechnology

Highlights: Polymer Chemistry (RSC) Emerging Investigator 2020

Prize of the Dr. Otto Röhm Foundation 2018

Research Stays: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyRadboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Environmental Monitoring

Fraunhofer IMS

Karsten Seidl

Standortsprecher

Gerd vom Bögel

Anna Schall-Giesecke

Sascha Weyers

Business Unit Health / Dep. of Electronic Components and Circuits

PhD from University of Freiburg

Research Interests: MEMS/NEMS, Smart Sensor Systems, Biosensors, Neural Implants, Biosignal Processing

Highlights: Klee Award for Young Scientists in Biomedical Engineering
President of German Society in Biomedical Engineering
Red Dot Award / Bosch Innovation Award for Bosch Vivalytic

Research Stays: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore / USA)

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Medical Technology

Business Unit Industry

Dr. from University Duisburg

Research Interests: Localization systems, Localization systems, Photonic ICs (PIC)

Research Stays: Fraunhofer IMS

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization

Technology

Dr. from University Düsseldorf

Research Interests: Semiconductor manufactoring, THz system, Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

Research Stays: Fraunhofer IMS 

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization

Technology

Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg

Research Interests: CMOS Technologein und Bauelemente, MEMS Technologien für Sensorik, Photonische integrierte Schaltungen (PICs)

Research Stays: University of California Santa Barbara

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization

Fraunhofer FHR

Dirk Nüßler

Standortsprecher

Peter Knott

Wasim Alshrafi

Thomas Bertuch

Bereichsleiter Industrielle Hochfrequenzsysteme (IHS)

Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Research Interests: Terahertz Systems for Industrial Applications, Integrated Circuits and Sensor Systems, Industrial Measurement Technology, Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Imaging

Executive Director

Dr.-Ing. from RWTH Aachen University

Research Interests: RF, Microwave and Terahertz Engineering, Antenna Arrays and Beamforming, Radar System Design and Signal Processing, Applications of Radar in Defence, Security, Traffic and NDT

Highlights: Chair of Radar Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
Co-Organiser of International Radar Symposium IRS since 2017
Member-at-Large in NATO/STO Sensors and Electronics Panel 

Research Stays: Medical Systems Lab, Univ. of Wales / College of Cardiff, UK

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization
Environmental Monitoring

Antenna and Front End

Phd from RWTH Aachen

Research Interests: RF Frontend engineering: microwave to THz, Metasurfaces, Satellite communications, Radar applications, Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)

Highlights: Winner of APMC 2020 Antennas Prize

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization

Antennas & Frontend

PhD from RWTH Aachen

Research Interests: Antennas, Computational Electromagnetics, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces, Electromagnetic Material Characterization

Research Stays: Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization

Christian Bredendiek

Standortsprecher

André Froehly

Dominic Alexander Funke

Riana Geschke

Integrated Circuits

PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum

Research Interests: Integrated Circuits, mmW/THz Circuit Design, RF Concepts for Radar, Sensing and Communication, MMIC Semiconductor technologies for RF/mmW/THz

Highlights: Best Paper Award European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference
2012 (EuMIC) as Author
Co-Recipient Best Student Paper Award EuMIC 2021

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization 

Industrielle Hochfrequenzsystem

Dr.rer.nat. (Universität Stuttgart, 2015)

Research Interests: Radar-Signalverarbeitung, Materialcharakterisierung, Radarbildgebung, Bildverarbeitung

Research area in terahertz.NRW: Material Characterization

Integrated Circuits

Dr.-Ing. from RUB

Research Interests: SiGe MMICs, mmW and THz Radar, THz sensing and communication, low power CMOS circuits

Highlights: Best Paper award at ICECS 2016

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization

Research Interests: Integrated circuits and sensor systems

Highlights: 2009 Stellenbosch University Vice-chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
2008 und 2009 Faculty of Engineering Student Council’s Honorary President by invitation from Engineering Student Council
2009 IEEE EMC Chapter Founder’s award for founding a joint AP-MTT and EMC chapter

Ruben Thill

Jan Wessel

Integrated Circuits

PHD from Heinz Nixdorf Institute University Paderborn

Research Interests: Millimeter wave to terahertz integrated circuits, Integrated circuits for bio-medical applications, Joint communication and sensing, Mixed signal integrated circuits, Cryogenic circuits and systems

Highlights: 2023 IEEE Microwave Prize Award

Research Stays: IHP, Fraunhofer FHR

Research area within terahertz.NRW: Communication & Localization
Material Characterization