Main Responsibilities - EU and ESA project managemnet for the development of interactive broadband communication systems in terrestial and satellite access systems
- Hardware design for radio communication systems
Career
Mr. Schmidt attended a technical secondary school specialising in electrical engineering. Afterwards, he studied at the Technical University of Graz electronics and communications engineering. For his masters thesis, he built a switching power supply with AVL company, Graz. He graduated in 1993 with a Masters degree in communications engineering. This was followed by a two year placement at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxford, participating in the RACE project which focused on the development of ATM switches and ATM PC cards.
Since 1995 he holds the position of an R&D engineer at JOANNEUM RESEARCH. One of his past projects, commissioned by the European Space Agency, involved the development of a TDMA controller for a satellite gateway. He was also a member of the EU project CRABS, with participants in 7 European countries, where an interactive multimedia via wireless cable in the 40/42GHz band was developed. In the EU project EMBRACE, Mr Schmidt designed the access hardware and the burst modem interface. He is involved since the beginning of 2000 in project management of international EU and ESA projects. He leads in this respect the development to a Internet Protocol (IP) optimised satellite access system which is finaced from the ESA. Mr Schmidt writes for his PhD thesis on hardware issues of MF-TDMA controllers. |
