Gert Brussaard was born in Zegveld, the Netherlands, on October 5, 1942. He received the Masters Degree in Electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology in 1966. He obtained his PhD degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1985 on a thesis titled "Radiometry - A Useful Prediction Tool?", concluding a 10-year research project in radiometry.
From October 1988 to July 2002 he was Full Professor in Radiocommunications at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands, in the Division Telecommunication Technology and Electromagnetics of the Department of Electrical Engineering. In recent years he was Chair of the COST Domain Committee ICT, Chair of ITU-R Working Party 3J (Propagation Fundamentals), and President of the International Radio Science Union (URSI). He is Member of the Health Council of the Netherlands. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, member of the Royal Institute of Engineers of the Netherlands and member of the Netherlands Radio Engineering and Electronics Society.
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