Thomas Kürner
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Institute for Communications Technology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Schleinitzstraße 22 (room 205)
38106 Braunschweig
t.kuerner(at)tu-braunschweig.de
phone: +49 (0) 531 391 - 2416
fax: +49 (0) 531 391 - 5192
Lectures and Practical Courses in Winter Semester
Lectures and Practical Courses in Summer Semester
| Period | Curriculum Vitae |
|---|---|
| Born in 1964 | |
| 10/1985 - 09/1990 | Student of Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe |
| 11/1990 - 02/1994 | Research assistant at the Institute for Microwave Engineering and Electronics (Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Wiesbeck) working in the area of propagation and radio network planning |
| 06/1993 | Ph. D. Thesis at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of the University of Karlsruhe with the subject "Characterisation of Digital Radio Systems with a Broadband Wave Propagation Model" |
| 1993-1994 | Freelancer at L&S Hochfrequenztechnik at Lichtenau (software development in the field of planning tools for the frequency coordination) |
| 02/1994-05/2003 | Planning Specialist / Team Manager "Radio Network Planning Support" with E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co KG (GSM and UMTS mobile network operator) in the Department Radio Network Planning |
| 1995 | Nomination as Junior Scientist at Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring |
| 2001 | Senior Member IEEE |
| since 06/2003 | Professor for Mobile Radio Systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 2009 | Nomination to URSI Commission F |
| Period | Activities |
|---|---|
| 1995-2002 | Member of ITU-R SG 3 Radio Wave Propagation; i. a. rapporteur for the recommendation ITU-R P.1411 |
| 1996-2011 | Chapter and section editor of final reports of the European projects COST 231, 259, 273 and 2100 |
| 1997-2000 | UMTS Forum Spectrum Aspects Group: Coordinator of the Report No. 5 on Minimum Spectrum Demand per Public Terrestrial Operator in the Initial Phase |
| 1997-2000 | Chair COST 259 Working Group Network Aspects |
| 1998-2000 | Member of the national WRC 2000 preparatory group of Germany (focus on spectrum for UMTS extension bands) |
| 2001-2003 | IST-MOMENTUM project: Work Package Leader "Automatic Planning of large-scale Radio Networks" |
| 2005-2006 | Member of an expert group to set up the European COST 2100 project |
| 2008-2012 | Member of the national WRC 2012 preparatory group of Germany (focus on spectrum for THz Communications) |
| since 2008 | Member of IEEE 802.15 THz Interest Group/Technical Advisory Group THz (Chair since 2009) |
| 2012-2017 | Chair Working Group Propagation European Association of Antennas and Propagation |
| since 2012 | Representative of Technische Universität Braunschweig (Advisory Member) at the NGMN Alliance |
| since 2013 | European School of Antennas (ESoA), Member of the Board |
| 2014-2017 | Chair IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3d (100 Gbit/s Wireless) |
| 2015-2017 | Vice-Chair IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3e (High Rate Close Proximity) |
| since 2016 | Member of the Board of Directors European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) |
| since 2018 | EU Coordinator Horizon 2020 EU-Japan-Project ThoR |
| since 1993 | Lecturer for the Carl Cranz Series for scientific education teaching wave propagation modelling and channel characterisation |
|---|---|
| 2004-2009 | Study Dean for Computer and Communication Systems Engineering at TU Braunschweig |
| since 2008 | Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| 2012 | Guest Lecturer at Dublin City University |
| since 2012 | Technical expert witness in regulatory and spectrum issues |
| since 2014 | Lecturer at the European School of Antennas |
| 2015 | Technical expert in a patent litigation on Self-Organizing Networks before the UK High Court in London |
| since 2016 | Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
ThoR Tetrahertz end-to-end wireless systems supporting ultra high data Rate applications (2018-2021)
TERAPOD -Terahertz based Ultra High Bandwith Wireless Access Radio Networks (2017-2020)
iBroW - Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers (2015-2018)
TERAPAN - Terahertz communication for Next Generation Wireless Personal Area Networks (2013-2016)
SEMAFOUR - Self-Management for Unified Heterogeneous RAdio Access Networks (2012-2015)
GreenNets - Power consumption and CO2 footprint reduction in mobile networks by advanced automated network management approaches (2011-2013)
SOCRATES / Self-configuration and self-optimising wireless networks (2008-2011)
MOMENTUM / Modelling and Simulation of large-scale UMTS networks (2001-2003)
IEEE Standards Education: IEEE 802.15: Wireless Personal Area Networks
IEEE Standards Education: Why participate in Standards Developments
IBroW Project Video
ThoR Projekt Video
Teropod Projekt Video
Keynote Speech @ EuCNC 2018 Opening Plenary Video
Interview @ EuCNC 2018 Video
SiMoNe Software Video