El Doctorado en Ingeniería, línea Telecomunicaciones, tiene el gusto de invitarles a la conferencia “RF-Sensors: A Swiss Army Knife Device for Contact Free Metrology” ofrecida por el investigador postdoctoral y asesor académico Dr. Christoph Baer, de Ruhr-University Bochum, Alemania. Oportunidades de intercambio de estudiantes entre la Ruhr-University y UPB, así como actividades de investigación futuras serán conversadas.
About the lecture:
RF-sensors and Radar systems found their way into civil and industrial applications decades ago. Since then, they reliably measure distances, velocities, and filling levels etc. contact free and with great accuracy. Lately, current trends and technological achievements pushed operating frequencies up to the millimeter wave range, which allows for the determination of various additional physical quantities. Consequently, these novel sensors can be utilized in numerous areas of process industry, civil protection, and daily life. Therefore, their main purpose will be the determination and investigation of environmental parameters that allow for the supervision of crucial system parameters and the interpretation of complex processes. The talk will give an overview on diverse RF‐sensors for different applications, which were explored at the Ruhr‐University Bochum within recent years. The presented sensor applications include: humanitarian demining, mmWave imaging and microwave tomography, contact‐free gas sensing, dust and particle determination for process industry and natural hazard protection. Next to the introduction of the numerous areas of application, the different sensor designs will be explained and their field applicability verified. Moreover, opportunities regarding student exchanges between Ruhr-University and UPB as well as common research and teaching activities in the future will be introduced and discussed.
About the lecturer:
Christoph Baer received his diploma and doctor degree in electrical engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2009 and 2015, respectively. From 2006 to 2015 he worked as a research engineer on radar systems and radar applications with the Krohne Group in Duisburg, Germany. Currently, Dr. Baer is postdoctoral researcher and academic counselor with the Institute of Electronic Circuits at Ruhr-University Bochum. He is author or co-author of more than 50 international publications and holds 8 international patents.
His research interests include ground penetrating radar systems and concepts, methods for humanitarian demining, RF-material characterization and synthesis, sensors for avalanche science, and industrial microwave sensors.
