Thomas Bertuch

Thomas Bertuch (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. (Doktor der Ingenieur-wissenschaften) degree from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 2003. His doctoral research was developed at the Research Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques of the Research Establishment for Applied Natural Science e.V. (FGAN-FHR), Wachtberg, Germany. In 2004, he was a Senior Antenna Scientist with the Defence, Security and Safety Institute, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Hague, The Netherlands. Since 2005, he has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR) (formerly FGAN-FHR), Wachtberg, where he is currently a Team Leader of antennas and front-end technology. His main research activities are antenna and microwave circuit design, engineered electromagnetic materials (metamaterials), electromagnetic modeling, and RF heating.