Frank Ehlers

Frank Ehlers obtained the Diploma degree in physics from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany, in 1995; he did the work for his thesis on “Linear convolutive blind source separation” in the group of Professor Schuster. He obtained the Dr.rer.nat. degree in theoretical physics, in 1998 from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. He wrote the Ph.D. thesis on “Non-linear blind source separation” under the supervision of Professor Schuster. Since March 1998, he has been working at the Federal Armed Forces Underwater Acoustics and Geophysics Research Institute (FWG) in Kiel, Germany, where he focused on signal processing for detection, tracking, classification, sensor control, and fusion. Since April 2006, he is working as a Programme Manager for “Multisensor systems and methods” at the NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy. He actively conducts both application oriented research as well as more fundamental research in the broader fields of data fusion and collaborative signal processing. He has served and serves as a Member on a number of different international programming committees for conferences such as EUSIPCO and FUSION. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and performs reviewing activities for different scientific journals.

Biography Updated on 23 August 2006