Florian Roemer

Florian Römer (Senior Member, IEEE) studied computer engineering at Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau), Ilmenau, Germany, and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree in communications engineering and the Dr.Ing. degree in electrical engineering from TU Ilmenau in October 2006 and October 2012, respectively. From December 2006 to September 2012, he was a Research Assistant with Communications Research Laboratory, TU Ilmenau. In October 2012, he joined the Digital Broadcasting Research Group, a joint research activity between the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany, and TU Ilmenau, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In January 2018, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is currently leading the SigMaSense Group with a research focus on innovative sensing and signal processing for material diagnostics and nondestructive testing. Dr. Römer was a member of the Organizing Committee of the 19th International Workshop on Smart Antennas 2015, Ilmenau, and the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2018, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He was a recipient of the Siemens Communications Academic Award for his diploma thesis in 2006 and the EURASIP Best Dissertation Award in 2016 for his dissertation.