André W. Gunst

Andre Gunst was born in Havelte, The Netherlands, in 1972. He received the M.Sc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in June 1999. In the same year, he joined ASTRON as a digital system engineer with the R&D Department. Since 2004 he has worked extensively on the development of station systems for the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) project and since 2006, he leads the LOFAR technical team. From 2010 onwards, he assumed a dual role, working for both ASTRON and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project. SKA will be the largest radio telescope on earth, built in Australia or South-Africa. He is an Aperture Array Domain Specialist for the SKA office located in Manchester. In addition, he also leads the digital system development of several projects in ASTRON. His research interests include (digital) system design and digital signal processing.