Sebastien Chartier

• Strategic development of the Business Unit
• Acquisition of national and international public funded or industrial projects
• Management of national and international public funded or industrial projects
• Project tracking of all projects within the Business Unit
• Represent the Business Unit inside and outside

Since 01/20 Head of Business Unit High Frequency Electronics, Fraunhofer IAF, Freiburg, Germany.

• Strategic development of the BU
• Acquisition of national and international public funded or industrial projects
• Management of national and international public funded or industrial projects
• Project tracking of all projects within the BU
• Represent the BU inside and outside the Fraunhofer Society

02/19-12/19 Group Leader Microwave and Terahertz-Electronic, Institut of Robust Power Semiconductor Systems (ILH), Stuttgart.

• Team management
• Project acquisition and management
• Mentoring of doctoral candidates, master as well as bachelor students
• Teaching for advanced lectures

08/17-01/19 Sub-System Design Leader, NXP Semiconductors Germany GmbH, Hamburg.

• Design Lead: Management of the team responsible for specific IP designs
• Development and characterisation of mm-wave MMICs based on 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS and advanced CMOS technologies for next-generation Automotive Radar Systems
• Coordination between different sites

03/09-07/17 R&D engineer, Hensoldt GmbH, Ulm

2011: Specialist for RF System-on-Chip

2013: Expert for System-on-Chip Architecture

Role of Experts

• Be a resource of expertise
• Impact research and innovation
• Be involved in specific projects
• Retain state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of expertise
• Advise on technological developments
• Deal with the capture and spread of knowledge
• File, advise on and evaluate patents
• Represent their field of expertise inside Airbus DS, Airbus Group, and externally.

Strong involvement in the following activities:

• SoC for Digital Beamforming: Work package responsible, complete Front-End design,

partial mentoring of a PhD student (ADC design), single Point of Contact for foundry

• Core-Chip for All-RF Beamforming: Work Package Responsible, mentoring of several colleagues, design of key components, Single Point of Contact for foundry
• High-speed, high resolution ADC: Technical advisor, partial mentoring of a PhD student

(ADC design), Point of Contact for foundry

• Ka-Band SatCOM: Work Package Responsible, mentoring of a PhD student, Single

Point of Contact for foundry

• Power Amplifier Design: Simulation, layout and measurements of several generations of GaN based class-S power amplifiers (BMBF Project GaMoKom).

12/07-02/09 Scientific Staff Member, Fraunhofer IAF, Freiburg

• Project management (e.g. BMBF)
• Participation to Calls and Invitations to Tender (e.g. ESA)
• MMIC and module design for active and passive imaging systems operating up to 220 GHz
• MMIC design for high-data rate communication systems operating at 60 GHz
• Ultra low-noise MMIC and module design for medical applications
• Ultra low noise cryogenic amplifier MMIC design for radio astronomy applications
• Students mentoring.

09/03-11/07 Scientific Staff Member, Institute of Electron Devices and Circuits, University of Ulm, Ulm

• Design and characterization of key components of a 77-81 GHz FMCW Radar Front-end using IHP’s 0.25 μm BiCMOS technology
• Millimeter wave circuit design, characterization and assembly using a 0.8 μm SiGe HBT technology
• Mentoring of five Master’s students.

03/03-09/03 Internship, Institute of Electron Devices and Circuits, University of Ulm, Ulm

Design of a Fully Integrated Fully Differential Switchable 5.5 GHz Power Amplifier Using a

Si/SiGe HBT Technology .

06/02-08/02 Internship, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers et Molécules, University of Lille, Lille, France

Study of the photosensitivity of optical fibers doped with germanium or fluor and study of chalcogenide wave guides.

01/09 Dr.-Ing Degree, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Title: SiGe HBT ICs with High Operational to Transit Frequency Ratio: Design and Design

Re-use.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Schumacher.

09/02-09/03 Master/Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées in microwave engineering, University of Lille, Lille, France (with honours).

Thesis title: Design of a Fully Integrated Fully Differential Switchable 5.5 GHz Power Amplifier

Using a Si/SiGe HBT Technology.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Schumacher / Prof. Gilles Dambrine.

09/01-09/02 Maîtrise de Physiques, Faculté des Sciences Jean Perrin, Lens, France (with honours).

09/00-09/01 Licence Ès Sciences Physiques, Faculté des Sciences Jean Perrin, Lens, France.

09/97-09/00 Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales, Faculté des Sciences Jean Perrin, Lens, France.

Specialisation in Sciences de la Matière (with honours).

07/97 Baccalauréat Scientifique, Lycée André Malraux, Béthune, France.