Thomas Kürner
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Institute for Communications Technology
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Schleinitzstraße 22 (room 205)
38106 Braunschweig
t.kuerner(at)tu-braunschweig.de
phone: +49 (0) 531 391 - 2416
fax: +49 (0) 531 391 - 5192
Lectures and Practical Courses in Winter Semester
Lectures and Practical Courses in Summer Semester
| Period | Curriculum Vitae |
|---|---|
| Born in 1964 | |
| 10/1985 - 09/1990 | Student of Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe |
| 11/1990 - 02/1994 | Research assistant at the Institute for Microwave Engineering and Electronics (Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Wiesbeck) working in the area of propagation and radio network planning |
| 06/1993 | Ph. D. Thesis at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of the University of Karlsruhe with the subject "Characterisation of Digital Radio Systems with a Broadband Wave Propagation Model" |
| 1993-1994 | Freelancer at L&S Hochfrequenztechnik at Lichtenau (software development in the field of planning tools for the frequency coordination) |
| 02/1994-05/2003 | Planning Specialist / Team Manager "Radio Network Planning Support" with E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co KG (GSM and UMTS mobile network operator) in the Department Radio Network Planning |
| 1995 | Nomination as Junior Scientist at Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring (Werner-von-Siemens-Fellow) |
| 2001 | Senior Member IEEE |
| since 06/2003 | Professor for Mobile Radio Systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 2009 | Nomination to URSI Commission F |
| Period | Awards |
|---|---|
| 1994 | VDE/ITG-Förderpreis |
| 2013 | Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to the development of IEEE Standard 802.11ad-2012 |
| 2017 | Best Paper Award, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2017, Warzawa, Poland |
| 2018 | Best Student Paper Award for the paper, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2018, Lisbon, Portugal (as co-author; main author is one of my Ph. D. students) |
| 2019 | Neal Shepard Award for the Best Propagation Paper in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology |
| 2022 | Best Teacher Award European School on Antennas and Propagation |
| 2022 | Neal Shepard Award for the Best Propagation Paper in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology |
| 2023 | VDE/ITG-Award |
| 2026 | Best Paper Award IEEE Transactions on THz Systems and Technology |
| Jahr | Preise |
|---|---|
| 1994 | VDE/ITG-Förderpreis |
| 2013 | Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contributions to the development of IEEE Standard 802.11ad-2012 |
| 2017 | Best Paper Award, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2017, Warzawa, Poland |
| 2018 | Best Student Paper Award for the paper, International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2018, Lisbon, Portugal (as co-author; main author is one of my Ph. D. students) |
| 2019 | Neal Shepard Award for the Best Propagation Paper in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology |
| 2022 | Best Teacher Award European School on Antennas and Propagation |
| 2022 | Neal Shepard Award for the Best Propagation Paper in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology |
| 2023 | VDE/ITG Preis |
| 2026 | Best Paper Award IEEE Transactions on THz Systems and Technology |
| Period | Activities |
|---|---|
| 1995-2002 | Member of ITU-R SG 3 Radio Wave Propagation; i. a. rapporteur for the recommendation ITU-R P.1411 |
| 1996-2011 | Chapter and section editor of final reports of the European projects COST 231, 259, 273 and 2100 |
| 1997-2000 | UMTS Forum Spectrum Aspects Group: Coordinator of the Report No. 5 on Minimum Spectrum Demand per Public Terrestrial Operator in the Initial Phase |
| 1997-2000 | Chair COST 259 Working Group Network Aspects |
| 1998-2000 | Member of the national WRC 2000 preparatory group of Germany (focus on spectrum for UMTS extension bands) |
| 2001-2003 | IST-MOMENTUM project: Work Package Leader "Automatic Planning of large-scale Radio Networks" |
| 2005-2006 | Member of an expert group to set up the European COST 2100 project |
| 2008-2012 | Member of the national WRC 2012 preparatory group of Germany (focus on spectrum for THz Communications) |
| since 2008 | Member of IEEE 802.15 THz Interest Group/Standing Committee THz (Chair since 2009) |
| 2012-2017 | Chair Working Group Propagation European Association of Antennas and Propagation |
| since 2012 | Representative of Technische Universität Braunschweig (Advisory Member) at the NGMN Alliance |
| since 2013 | European School of Antennas (ESoA), Member of the Board |
| 2014-2017 | Chair IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3d (100 Gbit/s Wireless) |
| 2015-2017 | Vice-Chair IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3e (High Rate Close Proximity) |
| 2013-2016 | Coordinator B MBF-TERAPAN project (“Terahertz communications for future personal area networks”) |
| 2016-2019 | Member of tzhe national preparatory group World Radiocommunicatiosn Conferecne 2019 (focus Spectrum for THz Communicationa; 2019 national and CEPT coordinator for Agenda Item 1.15) |
| 2016-2021 | Member of the Board of Directors European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) |
| 2018-2022 | EU Coordinator Horizon 2020 EU-Japan-Project ThoR |
| 2022-2023 | Chair IEEE 802.15 Task Group 3mb (Revision Project) |
| 2019-2026 | Spokesman DFG Research Unirt FOR 2863 Meteracom (Metrology for THz Communications) |
| 2021/2027 | Conference Chair European Conference on Antennas and Propagation EuCAP 2021/EuCAP 2027 |
| since 2022 | Chair ETSI ISG THz |
| 2023-2026 | Technical Manager EU-6G-SNS Projekt TIMES |
| since 2024 | Chair IEEE AP/S Technical Committee Propagation and Scattering |
| since 1993 | Lecturer for the Carl Cranz Series for scientific education teaching wave propagation modelling and channel characterisation |
|---|---|
| 2004-2009 | Study Dean for Computer and Communication Systems Engineering at TU Braunschweig |
| 2008-2021 | Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| 2012 | Guest Lecturer at Dublin City University |
| since 2012 | Technical expert witness in regulatory and spectrum issues |
| since 2014 | Lecturer at the European School of Antennas |
| 2014-2022 | Reviewer for Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung and Bayerischen Forschungsstiftung |
| 2015 | Technical expert in a patent litigation on Self-Organizing Networks before the UK High Court in London |
| 2016-2021 | Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| 2020-2022 | Member of the IEEE APS Awards Committee |
| since 2021 | Track Editor IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation |
| since 2024 | Associate Editor Journal on Infrared, Millimeter-Wave and THz Technology |
| 2025-2026 | Panel Member Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
TIMES - THz Industrial Mesh Networks in Smart Sensing and Propagation Environments (2023-2026)
TERRAMETA - TERahertz Reconfigurable METAsurfaces for ultra-high rate wireless (2023-2026)
Meteracom - Metrology for THz Communications (2019-2026)
6G-RIC/xG-RIC - 6G-RIC Research and Innovation Cluster / Technology Transfer Hub for Medicine and Mobility of the Future (2021-2028)
ThoR Projekt Hardware-Demo
Terapod Projekt Video
Keynote Speech @ EuCNC 2018 Opening Plenary Video
Interview @ EuCNC 2018 Video