Asher Madjar (IEEE Life Fellow) received his D. Sc. Degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1979 and the B. Sc. and M. Sc. Degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – in 1967 and 1969, respectively. Dr. Madjar’s expertise is in the area of microwave and microwave photonics components, integrated circuits and subsystems. He has been working for more than 45 years in this field in industry and in parallel teaching in academia both in Israel and USA. He performed research in many aspects of this field, and has published over 150 papers in the professional magazines and in conferences. In industry he established several key know how centers (MIC laboratory, MMIC design group) and trained generations of microwave engineers in Israel. His current interest is in advanced technologies for microwave and microwave photonics hardware: monolithic integration, THz devices, wide band gap devices, optical/microwave interaction, advanced design techniques, etc.
Dr. Madjar became a member of IEEE in 1972. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE since 2011, and an IEEE Fellow since 1997. He has been involved in the instruction of many graduate students both in Israel and USA. He is one of the founders of the European Microwave Association and has been involved heavily in restructuring the European Microwave Conference and European Microwave Week. He served on the first Board of Directors of the European Microwave Association. He is a member of the TPC of both IEEE International Microwave Symposium and the European Microwave Conference. He was the chairman of the European Microwave Conference in 1997 (Jerusalem). He received the “Best Researcher Award” from RAFAEL, Israel in 1997.
Dr. Madjar was involved heavily in IEEE activities in Israel, both in the section level and the AP/MTT chapter, which he established in 1973 and served as its chairman for many years.
Presently Dr. Madjar is a visiting scientist in the HFIC laboratory in the Technion, Israel. He is involved in the research activities of this laboratory.
