Stephan ten Brink

Stephan ten Brink joined the Institute of Telecommunications (Nachrichtenübertragung) in July 2013. Prior to accepting the position at the University of Stuttgart, he worked in various job functions in industry, research and development.

Prior assignments include

• one year researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Swindon, U.K. (mobile wireless communications, GSM, UMTS)
• 5 years as researcher at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel and Crawford Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A. (error correcting coding and signal detection for multiple antenna communications)
• 7 years at Realtek Semiconductor Corp. in Irvine, California, U.S.A., as director of wireless ASIC development (WLAN, UWB baseband)
• 3 years at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) in Stuttgart, Germany, as department head in wireless physical layer research (signal processing and channel coding for wireless and optical coherent communication systems; 4G/LTE, long-haul)

The common theme across his appointments is in digital modem design, particularly signal processing and channel coding for communications, for improving data rate, receiver sensitivity, and power efficiency.

He is member of the VDE/ITG, a fellow of the IEEE, and active in the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society. He is member of the Medienrat of "the Länd" (Baden-Württemberg).