Dirk Baumann

Dirk Baumann received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics (IFH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, in 2006. During spring and fall 2000, he was an Intern at the Alaska SAR Facility (ASF), Fairbanks, Alaska, where he was engaged in the calibration of ASF's SAR processor. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Research Engineer at the Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics (IFH), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include numerical methods with emphasis on time domain techniques, and electromagnetics in biology and medicine. Dr. Baumann's Ph.D. thesis on the finite-volume time-domain method was awarded the ETH Silver Medal of Excellence.