Professional Address:

Institute for Advanced Study
Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich
Germany
Tel.: +49 89 289 252 00
email: dewilde@zv.tum.de

Present Position:

Director of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study

Other Functions:

Chairman Freeband Consortium

Education:

1970

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Thesis: Cascade Scattering Matrix Synthesis
Thesis advisors: R.W. Newcomb, R.E. Kalman

1968

License in Mathematics, Belgian Central Examination Commission

1966

Electrical Engineer (M.Sc.), Catholic University of Leuven

2001-

Chairman of the Circuits and Systems Section of the Faculty EEMCS at TU Delft

1995-

Chairman of the Dutch Technology Foundation STW -the Dutch funding agency for academic research in Technology

1993-2001

Director of DIMES, the Delft Institute for Microelectronics and Submicron Technology

1977-93

Professor in Network Theory and Chairman of the CACD and Signal Processing Laboratory, Delft University of Technology

1973-76

Associate Professor in Numerical Analysis, Catholic University of Leuven

1973-76

Qualified Researcher in Circuit and System Theory and Numerical Mathematics, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research

1971-73

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, University of Lagos Teaching Duties in Electronics and Microwave Techniques
Head of the Electronics Laboratory and the Microwave Laboratory

1970-71

Associate Researcher in Mathematics (ONR Fellow), University of California at Berkeley

1966-68

Teaching Assistant in Electronics, Catholic University of Leuven

2003

Humboldt Research Prize

2000

IEEE Circuits and System Society Golden Jubilee Medal

1994

Titulary of the Honorary Chair ’Vlaamse Leergangen 1994’ at the Catholic University of Louvain

1995

Honorary Medal of Delft University of Technology for advisorship of 25 Ph.D. graduates

1993

Elected Member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science

1985 & 1990

Meyerhoff Fellow at the Weizmann Institute

1988

Best paper award (International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications

1981

IEEE Fellow for ’contributions to Network Theory, especially the synthesis of scattering matrices’.

1970

ONR Postgraduate Fellow in Applied Mathematics

1966

Award for the ’Best Master Thesis’ by the Belgian Association of Engineers (K.VIV)