Peter Russer
Peter Russer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1943. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in 1967 and the Dr. techn. degree in 1971, both in electrical engineering and both from the Technische Universität in Vienna, Austria. From 1968 to 1971, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Technische Universität in Vienna. In 1971 he joined the Research Institute of AEG-Telefunken in Ulm, where he worked on fiber-optic communication, high speed solid-state electronic circuits, laser modulation and fiber-optic gyroscopes. In 1979 he was corecipient of the NTG award. Since 1981 he has held the Chair of Hochfrequenztechnik at the Universität München, in Munich, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor in 1990 at the University of Ottawa, and in 1993, at the University of Victoria. Since October 1992 he is the Director of the Ferdinan-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik in Berlin, Germany. His current research interests are integrated microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, electromagnetic fields, statistical noise analysis of microwave circuits, and methods for computer-aided design of microwave circuits. Peter Russer is the author of numerous scientific papers in these areas. He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of the German Informationstechnische Gesellschaft and the Austrian and German Physical Societies.
