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A special session in memory of Prof.
Rüdiger Vahldieck to honour his devotion and contributions to the Electromagnetics community, will be organized.
Prof. Rüdiger
Vahldieck of Zurich, Switzerland, passed away on 21 March
2011 at age
59 after a long and valiant fight with brain cancer. He
leaves behind
his wife Zorka and his daughter Masha, who were at his bedside.
Rüdiger was born in Heiligenhafen, Germany, on 8
July 1951. He
received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees, both in Electrical
Engineering, from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1980 and 1983
respectively. He accepted the position of Professor of Field
Theory at
the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology), first as Leader of the Field Theory Group and
subsequently, in 2003, as Head of the Department of Field Theory and
Microwave Electronics (IFH). In 2005, he became President of
the
Research Foundation for Mobile Communications and was elected Head of
the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
(D-ITET) of ETH Zurich.
Prof. Vahldieck has been the President and General Chairman of the
International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC
Zurich) from 2003 to 2009, and was General Chair of the 2006 and 2008
APEMC/EMC Zurich in Singapore and 2007 EMC Zurich in Munich.
He has devoted considerable effort to the founding of the
Asia-Pacific EMC Symposium. He tirelessly served the IEEE in key
leadership roles,
notably as a reviewer of several IEEE journals, Associate Editor and
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
(2004-2006), Member of the MTT-15 Technical Committee on Field Theory,
Chair of IMS TPSC Committee 3, and Chair of the Swiss Joint IEEE MTT,
AP, and EMC Societies Chapter. He has been a member of IEEE
since 1985, became a Fellow in 1999, and received several outstanding
publication awards.
Rüdiger was a passionate sailor and spent whatever time he could find,
on his sailboat with his family and friends. He now has
departed on his final voyage, leaving behind his loved ones, friends,
students, research associates and colleagues to remember him fondly.
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