Biography
Stefan Höst, Head of department
Stefan Höst finished his Master of Science in Computer Science Engineering in 1994 from Lund University. In 2000 he received his PhD in Information Theory, also Lund University, with the thesis entitled On Woven Convolutional Codes. Since then he has a position as Associate Professor at the department of Electrical and Information Technology, where he is active in the Broadband Communication research group. His main tasks are research and teaching.His interests cover communicarion systems, especially access architectures, both fixed and mobile, viewed over the physical layer up to the network layers. He is involved in a very close cooperation with Ericsson Research in Kista, Stockholm, within the area of fixed access to the mobile base stations.
In 2001-2008 he was programme chair for the Information and communications programme at Lund University. In the period 2018-2020 he was director of studies at the department of Electrical and Information Technology, and from January 1, 2021 he is the head of department.