Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Vahldieck

hat in Berlin, Ottawa, British Columbia und Zürich geforscht und gelehrt. Er ist Vorsitzender des internationalen Züricher Symposiums zu Elektromagnetischer Verträglichkeit (EMV) und Chefredakteur der IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Prof. Dr. Vahldieck leitet das Institut für Feldtheorie und Höchstfrequenztechnik an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich. Seine Spezialgebiete sind die EMV und Höchstfrequenztechnik.

Prof. Dr.-Ing., Dr.-Ing. habil. Robert Weigel

hat in München, Wien, Linz und Shanghai geforscht und gelehrt. Er ist Mitbegründer des DICE - Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering GmbH & Co. KG, das jetzt ein Entwicklungszentrum der Infineon Technologies AG ist. Prof. Dr. Weigel hat den Lehrstuhl für Technische Elektronik an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg inne. Sein Spezialgebiet ist die Schaltungsentwicklung für Mobilkommunikationsanwendungen. v

Prof. Dr. Andreas Weisshaar

started his career as research fellow and professor at Oregon State University (USA). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging and the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Prof. Dr. Weisshaar heads the microwave group in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. His research focus is on passive RF/microwave circuits and components, interconnects and electronic packaging, and signal integrity.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoefer

began his academic career at the University of Grenoble, France, was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and is now Professor and Head of the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Numerical Modelling, Co-Chair and former Chair of the Technical Committee MTT-15 Field Theory, Distinguished Microwave Lecturer of the MTT Society, Fellow of IEEE the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute (BC-ASI), and of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also Founder and President of Faustus Scientific Corporation. His focus is on computational electromagnetics applied to RF to optical communications, EMC, drying and other industrial applications of electromagnetic fields.

Dr. Rüdiger Both

started his career as a developer of mainframe computers. After four years he changed to product management of Local Area Networks and data communication products. Several years later he additionally took on the responsibility for all computer activities of that company addressing the market with self developed industrial computers based on Microsoft and UNIX operating systems. After more than twelve years experience on providers' side he changed to consulting business and built up the Munich office of a well-known consulting company offering consultancy in the field of ICT strategies for users and market strategies for suppliers of information and communication technology products. His focus is on market research, competition analysis, identification of target groups, strategic product planning, elaboration of business cases/business plans, and definition of market strategies.