Teaching

• 350.002: Orientation ETIT, VU
• 354.007: Privatissimum for Doctoral Students, VU
• 354.058: RF Techniques, VU
• 354.059: Lab RF Techniques, LU
• 354.060: Advanced RF Techniques, VU
• 354.061: Seminar RF Techniques, SE
• 354.084: RF Simulation Tools, PR
• 354.995: Bachelor Thesis and Seminar, PR

Curriculum Vitae

In 2000 and 2004, Holger Arthaber received the academic degrees Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.techn. from TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). In 2017, he obtained his habilitation (venia docendi) in High-Frequency Engineering. He began his academic career in the field of signal processing for mobile communications; in 2000, he moved to the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Circuit Design. His research focuses on hardware-oriented high-frequency and microwave engineering, with an emphasis on nonlinear measurement techniques and the modeling of RF power amplifiers, antenna design and antenna measurement techniques, as well as computationally efficient simulation methods for large active antenna arrays. Since 2009, Holger Arthaber has been head of the Microwave Engineering research group at the Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering (EMCE) at TU Wien.

Currently, he is working within the FFG project DragonGEM (partners: TU Graz/IKS, Infineon, Air6 Systems) on two closely interlinked topics: a computationally efficient simulator for large active antenna arrays and a prototype hardware featuring an 8×8 antenna array in the K/Ka band. Together, these two building blocks lay the foundation for further research on scalable over-the-air calibration methods. In parallel, he continues to expand antenna measurement capabilities at EMCE (spherical wave coefficients, near-field to far-field transformation, pattern stitching from truncated measurements) and is advancing several interdisciplinary preliminary projects in the area of microwave sensing, including a collaboration on the mechano-mechanical coupling of GHz-scale MEMS resonators and a pilot project with the Medical University of Vienna on the dielectric characterization of the shelf life of blood products.

He has led more than 50 research projects and secured research funding in excess of 4 million euros. He has provided and continues to provide scientific input for various research projects funded by national and international agencies as well as directly by industry.

He is author and co-author of 146 peer-reviewed publications, holds four EU/US patents and has filed three additional patents together with co-inventors. He served as co-chair and co-organizer of the “EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology” (2007) and was involved in the “International Workshop on Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-wave Circuits (INMMiC)” as chair and organizer (2011) and as TPC chair (2017). He is the Austrian chair of URSI Commission B (Fields and Waves) and a member of the General Assembly of the European Microwave Association (EuMA). Holger Arthaber has received several awards, including the Dr. Ernst Fehrer Prize of TU Wien (2004), the Measurement Technology Award of the Association of University Teachers for Measurement Technology (2004), the inclusion of one of his patents in the Inventum Top-Ten Patents of the Year (2013), and the Austrian Standards Living Standards Award (2017).

Holger Arthaber is strongly involved in academic teaching. His main focus is on lectures in the field of high-frequency engineering: he covers both fundamental courses and advanced specialized and in-depth classes. He has supervised 39 completed master’s theses, ten completed doctoral theses, and more than 45 bachelor’s theses; he is currently supervising four ongoing doctoral theses and five ongoing bachelor’s theses.

Holger Arthaber’s current research areas are:

• Antenna design, simulation, and measurement (near-field to far-field transformation, pattern stitching)
• Large antenna array simulation and over-the-air calibration
• Nonlinear load-pull techniques (active/broadband loads, IF-calibration, pulsed characterization)
• Nonlinear modeling and linearization of RF power amplifiers (X-parameters, polyharmonic distortion models, digitally-driven amplifiers)
• Microwave and mmWave system design, mixed digital/RF circuits with real-time signal processing
• Microwave sensing and material characterization (dielectric properties of solids and liquids, biomedical applications)
• RFID and backscatter communication systems, including channel measurement/emulation and localization
• Software-defined radios and low-cost RF instrumentation (including EMC applications)
   

His detailed CV can be downloaded using the link below.