Radoslaw Piesiewicz

Radoslaw Piesiewicz received his PhD degree with summa cum laude in communications technology from Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany and his M.Sc. degree with highest honors in optical and microwave communications from Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. Dr Piesiewicz currently holds a position of Director of R&D: ICT Development at the Wroclaw Research Center EIT+ in Poland, where he is responsible for building the ICT Research Center, overall development activities in the area of ICT, acquisition of funding and is also actively engaged in research, leading cognitive radio and networks groups. Currently 5 FP7 projects from Call 4 and Call 5 run at EIT+ under his leadership. Prior to this he was Head of Broadband & Wireless Area at Create-Net, Italy, where he led R&D activities in a number of FP6/FP7 and industrial projects. Before joining Create-Net he was with the Terahertz Communications Lab and in the Institute for Communications Technology in Braunschweig, where he was awarded Walter Kertz prize for achievements in interdisciplinary research linking electrical engineering with physics. His current research interests include cognitive and reconfigurable radio systems as well as hybrid wireless-optical communications and THz systems. He is WG3 chair (Cognitive Network Wide Mechanisms) in the COST IC0902 action (Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks). He is author of more than 60 publications and was a distinguished key note speaker at IEEE NGMAST conference in Cardiff, UK.