Joachim Ender is an
electrical engineer
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
with the Fraunhofer Group in
Wachtberg
Wachtberg is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km south of Bonn. In 2021 the Wachtberg municipality had approximately 20,352 inhabitants.
The municipality was form ...
, Germany. He was named a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014
for his contributions to multi-channel
synthetic aperture radar and
radar array
signal processing. Ender also received from
EURASIP The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) is an international scientific society for the theory and application of signal processing. It was established on the 1st of September 1978.It hosts the European Signal Processing Conference ( ...
the Group Technical Achievement Award for the same work.
After receiving his
diploma
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in
mathematics
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and physics at Westfalian Wilhems University, Ender began his career as a radar scientist in 1976. He was director of the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency
Physics and Radar Technology, as well as chairman for High Frequency Sensors and Radar Techniques at the
University of Siegen Center for Sensor Systems, until July 2016. In his retirement, Ender is still active as senior
scientist at the FHR and as senior member and
professor at the Center for Sensor Systems (ZESS) at the University of Siegen.
Ender was one of the founding members of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR), which takes place every two years. He created, together with colleagues, the International Workshop on
Compressive Sensing
Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal, by finding solutions to Underdetermined ...
Applied to Radar" (CoSeRa), which first convened in April 2012. In 2009, Ender further founded the International Summer School on Radar and SAR, which gathers each July.
References
Fellows of the IEEE
Living people
Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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