Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications, Teleinformatics and Acoustics
Pawel Kabacik was born in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1963. He received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunications (highest honours) from Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1986. In 1996 he received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the same University (award). In January 1987, he joined the Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics, Wroclaw University of Technology. In 2005 the State Board promoted him to the Doctor of Sciences degree following a habilitation colloquium and favourable reviews to his monograph on Reliable evaluation and property determination of modern-day advanced antennas. In January 1987, he joined the Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics, Wroclaw University of Technology. He was a visiting scholar to the Technical University of Denmark (1991/1992) and to the University of Queensland, Australia (1997, 2001 and 2006). His research interests include highly integrated and lightweight antenna arrays including textile and inflatable antennas, conformal antennas, small antennas, phased arrays, advanced antenna measurements and imaging. Another main area of his research is concentrated on onboard antennas and communication subsystems of small spacecraft. He was a Principal Investigator to two dozens of contracts funded by Polish ministerial programs and by several worldwide operating companies. Recent credits for his research include being a Principal Investigator to research projects on advanced antennas for mobile phones and base stations, antennas for rescue services, near-field measuring systems, spaceborne antennas and complete communication equipment for use onboard Earth minisatellites and Moon orbiters. He was a Principal Investigator to ARISS antennas onboard Columbus Laboratory of the International Space Station and this work is performed under European and US Space Agencies (ESA and NASA). He works on antennas in MarCom and MarSafe Norwegian programs. Presently he is responsible for development of antennas and onboard communication systems to small spacecraft and Moon missions, composite antennas, antennas for rescue services, broadband communication, nowadays antenna measurements and medical imaging. He received several recognitions for his research work, of which the most valuable is the "2000 Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award Honourable Mention" of the IEEE (co-received with Prof. Marek Bialkowski from Australia). In 1993 he received the Award for Young Scientists at the 7th National URSI Symposium, Poland. He was listed in seven editions of "Marquis's Who's Who in Science and Engineering" and was awarded "2007 Pro-student Award" by the Student Self-Autonomy Association of more than 20 universities and academic schools in Wroclaw. He chaired the Multiband Antennas and Conformal Array mini-team acting within the COST 260 Project and chaired one of four research tasks in the COST 284 Project. He is a member of Technical Committees at several international conferences.
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