Leo P. Ligthart was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on September 15, 1946. He received an Engineer’s degree (cum laude) and a Doctor of Technology degree from Delft University of Technology in 1969 and 1985, respectively.

He is Fellow of IET and IEEE. He is member in the Board of Governors IEEE-AESS.

He received Doctorates (honoris causa) at Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation in 1999, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics in 2001 and the Military Technical Academy Bucharest in 2010. He is academician of the Russian Academy of Transport.

In 1988 he was appointed as professor on Radar Positioning and Navigation and since 1992, he has held the chair of Microwave Transmission, Radar and Remote Sensing in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. In 1994, he founded the International Research Center for Telecommunications and Radar (IRCTR) and was the director of IRCTR

until 2011. He received several awards from IET, IEEE, EuMA, NERG and others.

He is emeritus professor at the Delft University of Technology, guest professor at ITB in Bandung and at Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta and scientific advisor of IRCTR-Indonesia.

He organized the first EuMW in 1998, the first EuRAD conference in 2004 and various conferences and symposia.

He gives post-graduate courses on antennas, propagation and radio and radar applications. He is advisor in several scientific councils.

Prof. Ligthart’s principal areas of specialization include antennas and propagation, radar and remote sensing, but he has also been active in satellite, mobile and radio communications. He has published over 600 papers and 2 books.