Prof. Otmar Loffeld

Coodrinator
University of Siegen
Room: PB-H 101
Mail: loffeld@zess.uni-siegen.de

Otmar Loffeld received the Dr Eng degree and the habilitation degree in the field of digital signal processing and estimation theory both from the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany. Since 1991, he is a professor with the University of Siegen, working in the Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), which he lead from 2005-2020. In 2002, he founded the International Postgraduate Program (IPP) “Multi Sensorics,” and in 2008 established the “NRW Research School on Multi Modal Sensor Systems for Environmental Exploration and Safety (MOSES)” at the University of Siegen. From January 2020 to January 2021 he was the scientific coordinator of the H2020 MSCA ITN “Multimodal Environmental Exploration Systems– Novel Technologies (MENELAOSNT)”, coordinated by the University of Siegen. His current research interests include Compressive Sensing, Kalman filtering, optimal filtering, estimation theory and process identification, SAR processing and simulation, SAR interferometry, and bistatic SAR processing. He is a member of ITG/VDE and IEEE/GRSS (senior).

Dr. Miguel Heredia Conde

General Manager
University of Siegen
Room PB-H106
Phone: +49 (271)740-2465
Mail: heredia@zess.uni-siegen.de

Miguel Heredia Conde received the Dr. Eng. degree in the field of sensor signal processing from the University of Siegen in 2016. In 2013, he joined the Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), at the University of Siegen. Since then he has also been a member of the DFG Research Training Group GRK 1564 ”Imaging New Modalities”. Since 2016 he is the leader of the research group “Compressive Sensing for the Photonic Mixer Device” and since 2020 also the general manager of the H2020-MSCA-ITN “MENELAOSNT”. His current research interests include Time-of-Flight imaging systems, such as those based on the Photonic Mixer Device (PMD), Compressive Sensing, Computational Imaging, and unconventional sensing. He is responsible for two lectures with focus on Compressive Sensing at the University of Siegen. He is a member of the IEEE and VDE-ITG professional societies, and a regular reviewer of top-level conferences (ICASSP, etc.), Elsevier and IEEE Transactions, Letters, and Journals, and of the DFG (German Research Foundation). He has been a visiting researcher at CiTIUS (Area of Artificial Vision), University of Santiago de Compostela, at the Faculty of Physics (Division of Information Optics), University of Warsaw, and at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London. He has also been an invited speaker at several talks and seminars and received several awards for his research work.

Dr. Ing. Holger Nies

Speaker of Recruitment Comitee

University of Siegen
Room PB-H103
Phone: +49 (271)740-2759
Mail: heredia@zess.uni-siegen.de

Holger Nies is team leader of the SAR group of the ZESS and responsible for the HITCHHIKER project. Since 2010, he is executive director of the doctoral program of ZESS. His current research interests include mono- and bistatic SAR analysis and mission design, SAR interferometry and passive radar systems.

Sivia Niet

Team Assistant

University of Siegen
Room PB-H102
Phone: +49 (271)740-3400
Mail: niet@zess.uni-siegen.de

Silvia Niet is the team assistant in the MENELAOS_NT network. Since 2002 she has been in charge of the secretariate of the IPP and MOSES doctoral programs at ZESS.
She is currently taking over administrative tasks in the MENELAOS_NT network and is the contact partner for both the members of the network and the early researchers.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Knott

Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR
Room: Building 1, R 2.07
Office Phone: +49 228 9435-227
Mail: peter.knott@fhr.fraunhofer.de

Prof. Dr. Peter Knott joined the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR (formerly FGAN e.V.) in Wachtberg, Germany, in 1994. From 2005 until 2016 he was head of the Department “Antenna Technology and Electromagnetic Modelling (AEM)”, where the focus of his work was design and development of antenna arrays and active antenna front-ends as well as electromagnetic modelling and beamforming methods for conformal antenna arrays. Since 2016, he is Executive Director of the institute Fraunhofer FHR. He is currently holding a professorship of Radar Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and is lecturer at different other organisations.

Prof. Yonina C. Eldar

Weizmann Institute of Science
Room: 218 Ullman Building
Office Phone: +972-8-934-3702
Mail: yonina.eldar@weizmann.ac.il

Prof. Yonina C. Eldar is an Israeli professor of electrical engineering in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
She was previously a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she held the Edwards Chair in Engineering. She is also a Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (elected 2017), an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow.
She is author of the book “Sampling Theory: Beyond Bandlimited Systems” and co-author of the books “Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Science”, “Compressed Sensing in Radar Signal Processing”, “Compressed Sensing”, and “Convex Optimization Methods in Signal Processing and Communications”, all published by Cambridge University Press.
Her research interests include sampling methods and A/D design, compressed sensing, detection and estimation theory, optimization for signal processing, medical imaging, signal processing and optimization for communication systems, signal and image processing for optics, deep learning and graphs, computational biology.

Prof. Andreas Kolb

University of Siegen
Room: H-A 7108
Phone: +49 (271) 740-2404
Mail: andreas.kolb@uni-siegen.de

Andreas Kolb is head of the Computer Graphics and Multimedia Systems Group at the University of Siegen since 2003. His academic background is computer graphics and visualization. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen in 1995 under supervision of Prof. H.-P. Seidel. Prior to his position at the University of Siegen, he was Professor for computer graphics at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel near Hamburg. Prof. Kolb is member of the Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) at the University of Siegen (since 2005), of ACM/SIGGRAPH (since 2002), Eurographics Association (since 2001) and of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI, since 1998). From October 2009 until September 2018 Prof. Kolb was the spokesman of the Research Traing Group 1564 “Imaging New Modilities”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (link is external). From beginning of 2011 until end of January 2015 he was Vice Dean for Research and Junior Scientists of the Faculty for Science and Technology of the University of Siegen.

Paula López Martínez

Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Inteligentes (CiTIUS)
Room: 110
Office Phone: +34 881816406
Mail: p.lopez@usc.es

Paula López Martínez research interests include the design of mixed signal integrated circuits particularly CMOS image sensors and energy harvesters for biomedical applications, and the physical modeling of electronic devices. As a result, she has authored or coauthored more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers in these areas. She has also participated in the organization of several national and international conferences. She is an IEEE member and has served as Treasury of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Spain from 2006 to 2008. Sine February 2021 she is the scientific coordinator of the H2020 MSCA ITN “Multimodal Environmental Exploration Systems– Novel Technologies (MENELAOSNT)”, coordinated by the University of Siegen

Daniela Coltuc

University Politehnica of Bucharest – CEOSpaceTech
Room: P-101
Office Phone: +049 (73) 9660 402
Mail: daniela.coltuc@upb.ro

Daniela Coltuc received M.Sc, Ph.D. degrees and habilitation in Electronics, telecommunications and information technology from University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. She is currently full professor with this university. She has served also as invited professor at Université Jean Monet in St. Etienne, Université de Lyon, France, and was invited researcher with the Laboratoire d’Automatique et Microinformatique Industrielle, Annecy, France, and Université Lyon 2. In 2012, she joined the Research Center for Space Information CEOSpaceTech, Bucharest. She has a sound background in Information theory with applications in image processing. In the recent years, she has worked in computational imaging.

Mihai Datcu

German Aerospace Center DLR – Earth Observation Center EOC
Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling
Germany
Building 133 / Room 102
Office Phone: +49 8153 28 1388
mihai.datcu@dlr.de

Mihai Datcu received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University Politechnica Bucharest UPB, Romania, in 1978 and 1986. In 1999 he received the title Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Computer Science from University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Currently he is Senior Scientist and Data Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery research group leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Professor with the Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, and director of the Research Center for Spatial Information, CEOSpaceTech, UPB. From 1992 to 2002 he had a longer Invited Professor assignment with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. From 2005 to 2013 he has been Professor holder of the DLR-CNES Chair at ParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology, Telecom Paris. His interests are in Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Computational Imaging and applications of Quantum resources for space applications. He received in 2006 the Best Paper Award, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Prize, in 2008 the National Order of Merit with the rank of Knight, for outstanding international research results, awarded by the President of Romania, and in 1987 the Romanian Academy Prize Traian Vuia for the development of SAADI image analysis system and activity in image processing. He has been holder of 2017 Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence for Data Science. He is IEEE Fellow.

Henrique Lorenzo

University of Vigo (UVigo)
Mail:

Henrique Lorenzo received the PhD in the field of geodesy and geophysics from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. From 1997 he is with the University of Vigo (UVigo), becoming a professor in 2019. His research activities are focussed on geomatic techniques as remote sensing and ground-penetrating radar. He is experienced developing research projects in the field of geomatics, having published about 150 scientific contributions in international journals/meetings. From 2017 he is the head of the PhD programme Geotechnologies Applied to Construction, Energy and Industry at UVigo.

Bernd Buxbaum

CEO at the pmdtechnologies ag and Executive Board Member at the ifm group of companies
The SUMMIT, Martinshardt 19, 57074 Siegen
Office phone: +49 271 238 712 -800
Mail:b.buxbaum@pmdtec.com

Dr. Bernd Buxbaum studied Microelectronics and Business Administration at Darmstadt University of Technology as well as University of Siegen and received his Ph.D. in Optoelectronics in 2002. He is founding CEO/CTO of the pmdtechnologies ag, the world’s leading supplier of 3D image sensor technologies based on the Time-of-Flight principle.
He is also an entrepreneur and investor in high-tech companies as well as member of several supervisory boards and lecturer at Universities.

Iñigo Ederra

INSITU Engineering / University of Vigo
217 Mining & Energy School
Office phone, +34 986 813 645
parias@uvigo.es

Pedro Arias-Sánchez is Professor at the Applied Geotechnologies research group in the University of Vigo, and promoter of INSITU Engineering, university spin-off. His teaching and research activities are focussed on Geomatic Techniques, Close Range Photogrammetry, LiDAR systems, Mobile systems, Mobile LiDAR Systems. He has a large experience developing research projects that range from bridge evaluation from remote sensing technologies, management of railway infrastructures, application of BIM to road modelling, energy models for smart cities, etc. He was a member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (secretary of LiDAR working group). He has published more than 200 articles in prestigious journals (h-index 39, with more than 4900 citations).

Iñigo Ederra

Public University of Navarra
Electric, Electronic and Communications Engineering Department
Room: 2005
Office phone, +34 948166039
inigo.ederra@unavarra.es

Iñigo Ederra is Head of the Antenna Group, member of UPNA’s ISC and assistant professor at UPNA. He was visitor scientist at ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands) and RAL (UK) working in different areas of THz technology. He has been involved in more than 80 search projects and contracts (PI in 16 of them) and published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals. He holds 2 patents and is cofounder of the spin-off company Anteral.

His research interests include metamaterials and THz imaging.

Álvaro López Paredes

University of Siegen
Room: PB-H202
Office Phone: +49(271)740-xxx
Mail:alvaro.LParedes@uni-siegen.de

Álvaro López Paredes wil work in the field of Efficient very-wide-area Time-of-Flight 3D sensing by means of Adaptive Compressive Sensing. He graduated as a Masters in Aerospace Engineering by the Technical University of Madrid. In addition, he completed a Master’s Degree in Numerical Simulation majoring in Solid Mechanics and a Specialist’s Degree in Numerical Simulation majoring in Fluid Mechanics, both by Technical University of Madrid in collaboration with ANSYS.
He has an extensive experience in the Oil and Gas sector with special focus on the structural analysis of offshore pipelines and subsea infrastructure. Furthermore, he was a member of the Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu at CIEMAT, Madrid, between 2017 and 2019, where he participated, as a Mechanical Engineer, in the structural design, test and pre-commissioning of the LST-1 camera for the CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) Project.
His areas of interest include Numerical Simulation (Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics), Signal Processing, Compressed Sensing, Time-of-Flight imaging systems, and 2D/3D imaging with special focus on very wide area imaging.