Curriculum Vitae (pdf) / Curriculum Vitae (word .doc)
   
 
 

 
Professional experience:
 Since 2006  FP7/FP6 Framework Program, European Commission  Brussels, Belgium  Expert Evaluator in different Objectives    

Evaluation of proposals of the FP7/FP6 Program in different Objectives.
 05/09 -  Wroclaw Research Center EIT+  Wroclaw, Poland   Director of ICT R&D    

Development of the vision and strategy as well as responsibility for the operation of the ICT Research Center. Management of the overall research and development activities in the field of ICT. Management of staff. Coordination of projects acquisition activities in EU FP7, POIG, industrial and from other funding sources. Contacts with industry, public institutions and with the EU Commission.

Acquisition and leadership of international/national/industrial projects: EU FP7 Call 4 STREPs C2Power, Saphyre and Fiver projects, EU FP7 Call 5 STREP OneFit, IP EUWB-Enlarged and NoE Acropolis projects.

Organizer, chair and panellist in a number of sessions at international conferences/events; Expert services for the EU Commission; Initiator of the COST Action IC0902 - Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks and its WG3 Chair, Cognitive Network-Wide Mechanisms; MC Member of the COST IC0905 Action - Techno-Economic Regulatory Framework for Radio Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio; TPC member in a number of international conferences.
 03/08 - 05/09  Create-Net  Trento, Italy   Head of Broadband & Wireless Area    

Management of the staff (10 people) and the operation of the Broadband & Wireless area. Leadership of the research and project activities. Focus on wireless and optical communications, in particular UWB, cognitive and reconfigurable radio and networks, optical networks, hybrid wireless-optical communications, dynamic impairment aware optical networking.

Acquisition and leadership of international/national/industrial projects: EU FP7 IP EUWB (management of the team, leadership of Cognitive Radio and Coexistence Workpackage, member of the Management Board, enhanced UWB technology for different application environments), EU FP7 STREP DICONET (management of the team, dynamically reconfigurable and impairment aware optical core networks), EU FP6 STREP Ming-T (management of the team , broadcast wireless convergence), I-Chip (management of the team , hybrid optical wireless, radio over fiber, UWB, 60 GHz, MAE Italy project with Chinese partners), Matrigo II/III (management of the team , industrial project with a major optical vendor, impairment aware optical networking), CISCO RFP (management of the team, industrial project with CISCO, integrated translucent network design), ACUBE (management of the team, Trentino Province, UWB for communications and localization for assisted ambient living).

Active participation in the ETSI TC RRS committee and in the FP7 RAS Cluster S&E Group; Organizer, chair and panellist in a number of sessions at international conferences/events; Distinguished keynote speaker at the IEEE NGMAST 2008; TPC member in a number of international conferences.
 01/04 - 03/08  Institute for Communications Technology, Mobile Radio Systems Department, Technical University of Braunschweig  Braunschweig, Germany   Research Project Engineer    

THz communication systems technology. System design and architecture, channel characterization and wave propagation of wireless multi-gigabit communication systems beyond 100 GHz. Modeling, simulation, measurements and planning of UWB, 60 GHz and Hybrid Networks. PhD degree. Interdisciplinary work in the Terahertz Communications Lab (mobile communication, microwave engineering, THz systems).

Participation (coordination, implementation and conceptual activities) in industrial/national/international projects: Data Communication and Localization (industrial project with Airbus GmbH, UWB radio technology, channel measurements and modeling in an aircraft cabin), Air Gate (BMBF project, setting up testbed for Galileo pseudolites for navigation in aerospace applications, coverage and interference prediction, hardware configuration), QStream (EU Medea+, architecture design, modeling and simulations for a 60 GHz system with beam switched antennas for multi-gigabit wireless data transmission with quality of service), Taifun (TCL project, strategies and technologies for THz communication systems), THz-Channel (TCL project, measurements and characterization of communication channels at THz frequencies for different application scenarios) .
 08/02 - 01/04  Fraunhofer IZM, Advanced Systems Engineering  Paderborn, Germany   R&D Engineer    

Modeling and simulation of multi-layer boards and packages in the framework of the EU MEDEA+ MESDIE A509 project - Microelectronic EMC System Design for High Density Interconnect and High Frequency Environment. Model order reduction techniques, matrix rational approximation for transmission lines, equivalent SPICE circuit models.
09/00 - 08/02  Axis  Gdansk, Poland  Project Leader    

Project leader in the area of software development (Delphi, C++, Assembly Language) for electronic scales and automated machines.
Education:
2004 - 2008
 Technical University of Braunschweig - (Braunschweig - Germany) ,  
Dr.-Ing. degree (PhD) in ultra-broadband wireless communication systems, with a title: Propagation aspects and performance study of future indoor wireless communication systems at THz frequencies, summa cum laude (mit Auszeichnung), graduation 15th of July 2008. Walter-Kertz Prize 2008 for the best dissertation in the interdisciplinary research.
1997 - 2002
 Technical University of Gdansk - (Gdansk - Poland)
M.Sc. in Communications Engineering with major in Microwave Engineering and Optical Telecommunication, highest honors, golden badge distinction, graduation 10th of July 2002
1996 - 1997
  Warsaw School of Economics - (Warsaw - Poland)
Studies of Economics and Management
1994 - 1996
  International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, IB - (Switzerland - Geneva, Poland - Gdynia, III LO im. Marynarki Wojennej)
Bilingual Diploma issued in Geneva, Switzerland, 41/45 points
1993 - 1994
 Coronado High School - (US - San Diego)
Exchange student
Languages:
Polish English , German - fluent,