Curriculum Vitae

Gerhard Kristensson, Professor emeritus

Education

1983, Docent in Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, Sweden
1979, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, University of Göteborg, Sweden. Title of the thesis: Scattering of stationary waves from buried three-dimensional inhomogeneities
1973, B.S. in Mathematics and Physics, University of Göteborg, Sweden

Positions

2015-, Professor emeritus, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
1989-2014, Professor (chair) in Electromagnetic Theory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
1986-1989, Docent at the Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1984-1986, Visiting Scientist at Applied Mathematical Sciences, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
1980-1984, Post-doctoral Research Associate, supported by the National Swedish Board for Technical Development (STU)
1980-1984, Lecturer, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, Sweden
1977-1979, Research Assistant, sponsored by the National Swedish Board for Technical Development (STU)
1975-1977, Scholarship from the Institute of Applied Mathematics (ITM)
1973-1975, Teaching Assistant, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Göteborg, Sweden

Note: Docent is both a title and a position. The title is usually given 3-4 years after the Ph.D. degree to a person that has shown qualified independent research. The position as a Docent is not automatically given.

Honors and Awards

1975-1977, Scholarship from the Institute of Applied Mathematics (ITM)
1988, Best teacher of the year at the School of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1991-, Listed in Who's Who in the World
1992, Visiting Erskine Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1993, Best teacher of the year at the School of Engineering Physics at the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
1993-, Listed in Who's Who in Electromagnetics
1993-, Fellow of the ElectroMagnetics Academy
1995-, Listed in European Biographical Directory
1997, Visiting Erskine Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999-2004, Chartered Physicist, Institute of Physics, UK
2004-, Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK
2007, Medal (Förtjänstmedalj), Växjö University
2007, Visiting Erskine Fellowship, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
2007, Best Antenna Poster Prize at EuCAP 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008-, Member of the Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund
2010, Schelkunoff Prize Paper Award. Title of the paper: Illustrations of new physical bounds on linearly polarized antennas, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1319-1327, May 2009, (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society)
2014, Promotor for the Engineering Faculty at the Promovation Cermony at Lund University
2014, Best paper in session, AMTA2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Title of the paper: Source reconstruction for Radome Diagnostics
2015-, Honorary member of SNRV (Swedish National Committee of Radio Science)
2015, Visiting scientist, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

Invited addresses

1981, Open Symposium on Mathematical Models of Radio Propagation, XXth General Assembly of the URSI, Washington DC, USA. Session: Multiple and particulate scattering. Title of the talk: Scattering from geophysical targets by means of the T-matrix approach - a review of some recent results
1981, XXth General Assembly of the URSI, Washington DC, USA. Session: Numerical methods. Title of the talk: Computational aspects of the T-matrix approach
1984, Invited paper to special issue of IEEE Transaction of Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Title of the paper: Influence of inhomogeneities in a stratified ground on the field of a circular loop antenna
1984, XXIth General Assembly of the URSI, Florence, Italy. Session: Scattering and radiation by objects near media interfaces. Title of the talk: Electromagnetic scattering from obstacles imbedded in a layered half space
1985, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA. Title of the talk: Time harmonic electromagnetic scattering from obstacles below the ground
1985, McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Title of the talk: One-dimensional inverse scattering problems in the time-domain
1985, Physics colloquium, Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Title of the talk: Scattering of waves in classical physics
1985, AMS meeting at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Session: Special session on inverse scattering theory. Title of the talk: Direct and inverse scattering in the time domain for a dissipative wave equation. I--II
1988, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Title of the talk: Wave-splitting techniques to solve the direct and inverse scattering problem in the time domain
1988, XIV Convention of Radio Science, Espoo, Finland. Title of the talk: Some current projects on direct and inverse scattering at the Department of Electromagnetic Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Part I-II
1989, Department of Electrical Engineering, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, FRG. Title of the talk: Direct and Inverse Scattering using Time Domain Techniques
1989, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany. Title of the talk: Inverse scattering problems in dispersive media. Green's functions and invariant imbedding techniques
1990, AMS/SIAM conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Title of the talk: Recent developments in time domain inverse scattering theory using invariant imbedding techniques
1990, Svenska Fysikersamfundet (The Swedish Physical Society), Section: Mathematical Physics, Lund. Title of the talk: Direct and inverse scattering techniques for transient electromagnetic waves
1990, Electromagnetics Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. Title of the talk: Reconstruction of dispersion from transient electromagnetic response
1990, Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Title of the talk: Inverse scattering for transient waves
1991, PIERS'91, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Title of the talk: Transient Scattering in Bi-isotropic Media
1991, ICIAM 91 conference in Washington DC, USA. Title of the talk: Inverse Scattering Problems of Electromagnetic Waves in Bi-Isotropic Media using Time Domain Techniques
1991, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Title of the talk: Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves in Dissipative and Dispersive Media
1991, Conference on FEM, BEM and PDE for Applications and Industry in Linköping. Title of the talk: Wave splitting - A tool to solve PDE
1992, The Lapland Conference on Inverse Problems, Saariselkä, Finland. Title of the talk: Wave splitting and inverse scattering problems in the time domain
1992, Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Title of the talk: Wave propagation problems: a review of direct and inverse methods using time domain techniques
1992, URSI, Sydney, Australia. Title of the talk: Transient wave propagation in a reciprocal bi-isotropic media at oblique incidence
1993, Electromagnetics Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. Title of the lecture series: Direct and Inverse Scattering Problems in the Time Domain
1993, Electromagnetics Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. Title of the talk: Transient Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Wave Guides
1993, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany. Title of the talk: Energy inequalities and constraints for time dependent electromagnetic fields
1994, PIERS'94, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Title of the talk: Direct and inverse scattering problems in time-varying media
1994, Second Invariant Imbedding/Inverse Scattering Conference, Washington DC, USA. Title of the talk: Transient Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Waveguides
1995, Högskolan i Växjö. Title of the talk: Lösning av direkta och inversa spridningsproblem med tidsdomänmetoder
1995, CEA/CESTA, Le Barp, France. Title of the talk: Inverse scattering problems solved by time domain techniques
1995, Journèes MAXWELL, Bordeaux, France. Title of the talk: Transient electromagnetic waves and inversion techniques
1995, ICIAM 95, Hamburg, Germany. Title of the talk: Wave splitting techniques for hyperbolic systems
1996, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany. Title of the talk: Wave splitting techniques and inverse scattering problems for electromagnetic waves in three dimensions
1996, FOA3, Linköping, Lecture series. Title of the lecture series: Elektromagnetisk teori för radarteknik.
1996, RVK96, Luleå/Kiruna. Title of the talk: Tidsdomänmetoder för direkta och inversa spridningsproblem i komplexa material
1996, PIERS'96, Innsbruck, Austria. Title of the talk: Recent theoretical developments in the propagation of transient electromagnetic waves
1996, PIERS'96, Innsbruck, Austria. Title of the talk: Inversion techniques in dispersive, complex media using transient electromagnetic waves
1996, PIERS'96, Innsbruck, Austria. Title of the talk: Non-linear inversion algorithms in spatially inhomogeneous materials
1996, Gerry Wickham Memorial and Service, Manchester, UK. Title of the talk: Transient electromagnetic wave propagation in laterally discontinuous, dispersive media
1996, XXVth General Assembly of the URSI, Lille, France. Session: Electromagnetic Theory. Title of the talk: Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Waveguides Solved by Wave Splitting Technique
1997, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Christchurch, New
Zealand. Title of the talk: Transient electromagnetic waves and inversion techniques
1997, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Christchurch, New Zealand. Title of the talk: Some recent progress in transient electromagnetic wave propagation
1997, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Christchurch, New Zealand. Title of the talk: Precursors in dispersive materials
1997, BIANISOTROPICS'97, Glasgow, Scotland. Title of the talk: Time-domain methods for complex media
1997, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden. Title of the talk: Integralrepresentationer för Helmholtz ekvation
1998, Nordic Demining Research Forum. Title of the talk: One-dimensional and multi-dimensional reconstructions
1998, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany. Title of the talk: Direct and Inverse Scattering for Transient Electromagnetic Waves in Nonlinear Media
1998, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Universität Münster, Germany. Title of the talk: Effective electric parameters in woven materials - a complex homogenization problem
1998, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Title of the talk: Effective electric parameters in woven materials - a complex homogenization problem
1999, ICIAM 99, Edinburgh, Scotland. Title of the talk: Homogenization of woven materials
2001, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Victoria, Canada. Title of the talk: Homogenization of anisotropic materials at fixed frequency
2001, Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA01). Title of the talk: Propagators in complex media with applications to frequency selective structures
2001, Workshop on Wave Dispersion in Complex Environments, Siena, Italy. Title of the talk: Radiation and surface waves in inhomogeneous substrates - an application to the propagator technique
2002, XXVIIth General Assembly of the URSI, Maastricht, Holland. Title of the poster: Dissipation in thick frequency selective structures
2002, Mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena, Växjö, Sweden. Title of the talk: Effective electric and magnetic parameters in materials with micro structure
2002, Colloquium, Göttingen, Germany. Title of the talk: Homogenization of electric and magnetic materials with micro structure
2004, Bianisotropics 2004, Ghent, Belgium. Title of the talk: Homogenization techniques for anisotropic materials
2005, 2nd Conference on Mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena, Växjö University, Sweden. Title of the talk: Near-field transformations in radome and antenna applications
2006, Chou University, Tokyo, Japan. Title of the talk: Near-field transformations in radome and antenna applications
2006, A 15 hours invited lecture series on Scattering of electromagnetic waves at National Defense Academy, Japan.
2006, Tokyo Institute of Technology University, Tokyo, Japan. Title of the talk: Near-field transformations in radome and antenna applications
2007, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Ottawa, Canada. Title of the talk: New physical limitations in scattering and antenna problems
2008, XXIXth General Assembly of the URSI, Chicago, USA. Title of the poster: Physical bounds on scattering by metamaterials
2009, Workshop in Mathematics, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden. Title of the talk: Physical bounds in electromagnetic scattering problems
2009, Workshop on SAT, FHS/Livgardet, Stockholm, Sweden.Title of the talk: Cloaking - (o)möjligt
2009, Workshop on Flygteknik, FHS, Stockholm, Sweden. Title of the talk: Kretsanalogiabsorbenter, CAA
2010, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. Title of the talk: Cloaking of electromagnetic waves
2010, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. Title of the talk: Physical bounds in electromagnetic scattering problems
2010, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. Title of the talks: Implications on passive systems by the use of analytic function theory
2012, Modern Mathematical Methods in Science and Technology, Kalamata, Greece. Title of the talk: On the use of analytic functions in electromagnetic scattering problems
2015, Colloquium, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA. Title of the talk: On the use of analytic functions in electromagnetic scattering problems
2016, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece. Title of the talks: Multiple electromagnetic scattering by randomly distributed and oriented obstacles

Official committees

1990-1993, Member of the School Committee of Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology (Sektionsnämnd ED)
1990-1996, Reserve member of the Appointment Board of Electrical Engineering at
Lund Institute of Technology (Tjänsteförslagsnämnd ED)
1993-1996, Reserve member of the Appointment Board of Engineering Physics at Lund Institute of Technology (Tjänsteförslagsnämnd F)
1994-1999, Deputy Chairman at the Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
1995-1996, Member of the Committee for Docent appointments at Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology (Docentnämnd ED)
1997-1999, Reserve member of the Appointment Board of Physics, Informatics, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology (Tjänsteförslagsnämnd forskningskollegium FIME)
1997-1999, Reserve member of the Research Board of Physics, Informatics, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology (Forskningsnämnd FIME)
1997-1999, Member of the Board for Graduate Studies at Lund Institute of Technology (LTHs forskarutbildningsnämnd)
1998-1999, Vice-chairman of the Board for Graduate Studies at Lund Institute of Technolog (LTHs forskarutbildningsnämnd)
2000-2006, Member of the Board of the Department of Electroscience, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
2002, 2003, Deputy Chairman at the Department of Electroscience, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
2005-2006, Chairman of the Board of Science at the Department of Electroscience, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University (Forskningsråd)
2006-2008, Member of Senate of Science, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University
2009-2013, Member of the Board of the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University
2009-2014, Member of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University
2015-2017, Betygsombudsman, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University

Chairman at conferences

1989, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Stockholm, Sweden. Session: Inverse scattering III
1990, RVK90, Göteborg, Sweden. Session: Computational methods for electromagnetic field problems
1990, AMS/SIAM conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Session: Invariant Imbedding and Inverse Problems In Memory of Bob Krueger
1991, PIERS'91, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Session: Chiral Materials and Applications
1991, ICIAM 91 conference in Washington DC, USA. Session: Time Domain Techniques for Inverse Scattering Problems
1991, XVII Convention on Radio Science URSI/IEEE, Åbo, Finland. Session: Electromagnetic theory and chiral materials
1992, The Lapland Conference on Inverse Problems, Saariselkä, Finland
1994, CHIRAL'94, Perigueux, France. Session: Computations on single chiral elements
1994, Second Invariant Imbedding/Inverse Scattering Conference, Washington DC, USA
1997, Antenn97, Göteborg, Sweden. Session: Periodic structures
1997, BIANISOTROPICS'97, Glasgow, Scotland. Session: Linear Complex Materials: Theory 1
1999, XXVIth General Assembly of the URSI, Toronto, Canada. Session: Electromagnetic theory
1999, NRS symposium, Lund, Antennen och dess omvärld, kopplingen mellan antenn och radiosystem. Session: Vågutbredning
2000, Antenn00, Nordic Antenna Symposium, Lund. Session: Small Antennas II
2001, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Victoria, Canada. Session: Novel Mathematical Techniques
2002, RVK02, Stockholm, Sweden. Session: Elektromagnetiska fält och vågor
2002, XXVIIth General Assembly of the URSI, Maastrich, Holland. Session: Inverse scattering and imaging
2003, Antenn03, Nordic Antenna Symposium, Kalmar. Session: Poster Session II - Numerical Methods and Small Antennas
2004, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Pisa, Italy. Session: Homogenization of Electromagnetic Material Parameters
2004, Bianisotropics 2004, Ghent, Belgium. Session: Electromagnetic Theory
2005, RVK05, Linköping, Sweden. Session: Elektromagnetiska fält och vågor
2006, Antenn 06, Linköping, Sweden. Session: Invited Speakers, Prof. Ben A. Munk
2008, XXIXth General Assembly of the URSI, Chicago, USA. Session: Electromagnetic theory
2010, GigaHertz, Lund, Sweden
2010, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Berlin, Germany. Session: Analytic identities and limitations in electromagnetic theory
2010, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Berlin, Germany. Session: Complex Media
2011, XXXth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey. Session: Electromagnetic theory
2013, Modern Mathematical Methods in Science and Technology, Kalamata, Greece.
2014, XXXIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Bejing, China. Session: Electromagnetic theory
2015, Electromagnetic & Light Scattering XV, Leipzig, Germany. Session: Electromagnetic scattering
2017, XXXIIth URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Montréal, Canada. Session: Staffan Ström Memorial Session

Miscellaneous

2003 Short course (16 hours) at Lund Institute of Technology on Arbetsrätt och ekonomi