Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
>20 Years Experience in Radar and Antenna Tech | Autonomous Systems | Radar Expert | Technology Manager | Advanced Radar Perception | Defence Radars | Drone EM Technologies | Lecturer Radar and Antenna Systems
Leading the development of next-generation radar, RF sensing, electromagnetic intelligence and space communication systems for critical infrastructure protection, autonomous systems and sovereign European defense technologies.
Teaching advanced radar and antenna systems with a focus on automotive radar, MIMO systems, wave propagation, radar cross section (RCS), phased arrays, waveguide technologies and high-frequency antenna design. Conducting hands-on CST Studio based tutorials for RF simulation, antenna development and radar component design across frequency bands up to 100 GHz. Lecture “Radar- and Antenna Systems” Lecture “Design and Simulation of Waveguide Components for Radar Applications” Tutorial in “CST Studio based Antenna Designs and Target RCS simulations” Tutorial in “CST Studio based Waveguide Component Designs”
Radar- and Antenna Systems Development with Proof-of-Concepts (POC). Establishing Patents, Leading and guiding Technology Radar Projects, making POCs in vehicles on streets for future radar sensor and perception validation, Transition, Hand-Over as Expert role to Advanced Engineering and Product Engineering Department. Leading a group of system, algo-sw, and antenna designers including the supervision of multiple PhD students.
Radar and Antenna System Concept Development
Automotive Radar System Design Studies and Patent Generation. Project and Technical Lead for Advanced Engineering and Technology Projects.
On-Job PhD in Radar- and Antenna Systems Topic: Development and Design of Phased Array Antennas for Dual-Polarized Weather Radar Applications https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A32005/attachment/ATT-0/
Special Development Projects: 1. Head of the receiver development project for upgrading KNMI and CHMI radars in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, respectively. 2. Head of the antenna mounted receiver design development and Project Manager for the German Aerospace Center (DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen POLDIRAD) and Arpa Piemonte in Italy. 3. Head of development project of for the first series prototype of Antenna Mounted Receivers, Furthermore, Systems Engineer of the implementation of 5 Radars in alpine regions up to 3000m asl. for Meteo Swiss. 4. Development of dual-pol radar calibrations 5. Development of WGFORJ (Waveguide Fiber Optic Rotary Joint) for NASA and German Aerospace Center 6. Systems Engineer for Taiwan Airforce Project 7. System Engineer for Environmental Canada Project (33 Klystron systems. Highest amount of radar systems in history of Leonardo) Short description about the RAD4ALP project from Meteo Swiss: https://www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/wetter/messsysteme/atmosphaere/das-schweizer-wetterradarnetz.html http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/content/dam/meteoswiss/en/Mess-Prognosesysteme/doc/peak-performance-radar-design-for-prediction.pdf Reference to the system design („developed by Vollbracht“) on page 44 lower left corner Short description about the Canadian Weather Service Project: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weather-general-tools-resources/radar-overview/modernizing-network.html#wb-auto-4
Development, Design and Validation of an Experimental Broadband Imaging Sonar System in Future Sonar Systems Group