E-mail: alexander.koelpin(at)tuhh.de

Phone: +49 40 30601 - 3019

Fax: +49 40 42731 - 0201

Room: DE 22 (Building I) / Room 1.043/1.044

2020 - today    
Professor and head of the Institute for High Frequency Technology
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

2017 - 2020    
Professor and Head of Department for General Electrical Engineering and Measurement Technology
Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg

2014 - 2017    
Private Lecturer and Head of Research Group Circuits, Systems & Hardware Test
Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair for Technical Electronics

2010 - 2014    
Habilitand and research group leader Circuits, Systems & Hardware Test
Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair for Technical Electronics

2005 - 2010    
PhD student and research assistant
Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Technical Electronics

2005    
Diploma in Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Information Technology (EEI), Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg

• Radar technology and high-frequency positioning
• Wireless communication systems
• High-frequency measurement technology and sensor technology
• Assembly and connection technology for high-frequency systems
• High-frequency systems for quantum technologies
• Hardware-oriented algorithms and high-frequency system linearization as well as machine learning methods

• Elected member of the IEEE MTT-S/AP German Chapter Executive Committee, since 2018, Chairman since 2024
• Active member of the strategic Technical Committee IEEE TC MTT-24: Microwave/mm-Wave Radar, Sensing and Array Systems, since 2014, Co-Chair from 2016 to 2018, Chairman from 2018 to 2020
• Spokesperson for the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Focus at Hamburg University of Technology, 2022–2025
• Representative of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) on the central IEEE Transportation Technologies Award Committee (2013–2016)
• Appointed member of Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology of the U.R.S.I. - International Union of Radio Science
• Appointed member of the VDE ITG Technical Committee 7.3 Microwave Technology, since 2018
• Member of the European COST IC1301 – Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics
• Collaboration Associate of CERN, Section Engineering – Sources-Target-Interaction – Equipment Controls and Electronics (EN-STI-ECE), 2016–2021

• Project reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Austrian FWF, the Polish OSF, the Swiss SNSF, and the European Union
• Conference Co-Chairman of the IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet): Subconference of the IEEE MTT-S Radio Wireless Week (RWW) in the USA; 2012-2017
• Finance Chair IEEE MTT-S Radio Wireless Week 2020 (RWW), San Antonio, USA, 2020
• Technical Program Chair IEEE MTT-S Radio Wireless Week 2021 (RWW), virtual, 2021
• General Chairman IEEE MTT-S Radio Wireless Week 2023 (RWW), Las Vegas, USA, 2023
• Chairman of the German Microwave Conference 2020, Cottbus, 2020
• Keynote Chair IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2026 (IMS), Radio Frequency Systems and Applications (RFSA) conference, Boston, USA, 2026
• Chairman der German Microwave Conference 2027, Hamburg, 2027
• Conference Secretary of the European Conference on Wireless Technology 2007, Munich: Subconference of the European Microwave Week (EuMW)
• General Office Chairman of the European Microwave Week 2013, Nuremberg
• Member of the program committee of several international scientific conferences (including IEEE MTT-S Intern. Microwave Symposium, IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, European Radar Conf., European Microwave Conf., German Microwave Conf.)
• Reviewer for various journals and conferences Nature, IEEE, IET, EUMA, PIERS, Hindawi (including Nature Communications Physics, IEEE Trans. on Microw. Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microw. Magazine, EuMA Intern. Journal of Microw. and Wireless Techn., IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, IET Electronics Letters, IEEE Microw. and Wireless Components Letters)
• Juror for the global IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition 2013 and 2014
• Associate Editor IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters (MWTL), 2021 - 2024
• Associate Editor MDPI Sensors, since 2022
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Multiport Technology, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi, 2014
• Juror for various Best Student Paper Contests