Christian Schuster

Head of the Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik 
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Christian Schuster received the Diploma degree in physics from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 1996, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, in 2000. Since 2006 he is full professor and head of the Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany. Prior to that he was with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he was involved in high-speed optoelectronic package and backplane interconnect modelling and signal integrity design for new server generations. His interests include signal and power integrity of digital systems, multiport measurement and calibration techniques, and development of physics-based as well as data-based simulation methods for electromagnetic compatibility and interference problems.

Dr. Schuster received several IEEE Transactions and DesignCon Paper Awards for his contributions to modelling for signal and power integrity. While at IBM, he received several IBM Research Division Awards for his contributions to packaging of high-end server systems. He is a member of the German Physical Society (DPG) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In the past, he was serving as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE EMC Society, as Chair of the German IEEE EMC Chapter, as a member of the Board of the EMC Society, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on EMC as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently, he is serving as President of the NIT Northern Institute of Technology Management (NIT) at TUHH.