Jan E. S. Bergman

Jan E. S. Bergman received the Ph.D. degree in space physics from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, in 2000. After his dissertation, he was a Consultant in a private company working in the field of telecommunications where he developed digital pre-distortion techniques for 3G base-station multicarrier power amplifiers (MCPA), and later he co-founded a university spin-off telecom company where he worked as a research manager. Upon returning to academia in 2004, he spent one year as a postdoc at the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, before being employed by his home institution, in November 2004, as a Project Manager for a nanosatellite payload encompassing miniaturized software defined radio (SDR) receivers. Currently, he is a Senior Scientist and, since 2006, a permanent staff member at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala. He serves as Co-I for radio payloads on several satellites, notably Compass-2, which was launched in 2006 and carried an SDR developed in house. He has recently been engaged as PI and Co-PI in two international space borne low-frequency radio astronomy proposals but also works with nanosecond radio pulse detection of ultrahigh energy neutrinos in the Antarctic ice. He has around 25 published papers and has given 10 invited talks since his return to IRF. He teaches microsatellite technology at the masters program in engineering physics and is a vice chairman of the education programme committee for the electronics and information technology undergraduate programs at Uppsala University.