Joachim Oberhammer

Research field: radio-frequency to terahertz microsystems, RF/microwave micro-electromechanical systems (RF MEMS), THz MEMS, sub-THz radar concepts, THz communication

Short CV: Joachim Oberhammer, born in Italy in 1976; M.Sc. EE from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2000; Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2004. Post-doctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2004, and at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2008. Since 2005 leading radio-frequency/microwave/terahertz micro-electromechanical systems research at KTH; Associate Professor at KTH in 2010; Professor in Microwave and THz Microsystems at KTH since 2015. Guest researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2007; guest researcher at NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, in 2014; guest professor "Chair of Excellence" at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2019-2020; ERC Consolidator Grant (CoG) by the European Research Council in 2013.

He is author and co-author of more than 250 reviewed research papers and holds 4 patents. In 2004, 2007, and 2008 he got an award by the Ericsson Research Foundation, a grant by the Swedish Innovation Bridge, and a scholarship by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, respectively. The research work he is heading received 10 Best Paper Awards, five IEEE Graduate Fellowship Awards (by MTT-S and by AP-S), the 2023 Young Engineer Award of the European Microwave Association, and the 2026 Harold A Wheeler Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He served as TPC/TPRC member of IEEE Transducers (2009, 2015, 2019), IEEE IMS (since 2010), IEEE MEMS (2011, 2012), IEEE RWW (2015, 2016), EuMCE (2019), EuMW (since 2022), IRMMW-THz (2024, 2025). Dr Oberhammer is Steering Group member of the IEEE MTT-S and AP-S Chapers Sweden since 2009. Steering Group Member of the Young Academy of Sweden 2014-2016. Representative of Sweden/Norway/Iceland in the European Microwave Association 2016-2018. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 2019-2021. TPC co-chair of IRMMW-THz 2025. TPC chair of EuMC 2028. PI of two SEK 35-million SSF framework grants on electronics (2014-2020; 2021-2026). Scientific coordinator of the EU RIA projects M3TERA and Car2TERA (both H2020).

Major projects as PI (overall project PI, or PI for KTH's project part):

• EDF project "REACT-II", 2024-2028, EUR 900 480 (KTH share)
• SSF framework project "THz communication", 2020-2025, EUR 3 400 000 (KTH share: EUR 1 750 000)
• SSF project Sweden/Taiwan "Antennas or beyond-5G", 2020-2025, EUR 310 000 (KTH share)
• ERC PoC "TERAFILT", 2020-2022, EUR 150 000
• H2020 FET-Open "TeraMeasure", 2019-2022, EUR 973 987 (KTH share)
• H2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN "TESLA", 2019-2022, EUR 542 000 (KTH share)
• H2020 RIA project "Car2TERA", 2019-2023, EUR 965 000 (KTH share)
• H2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN "CELTA", 2016-2020, EUR 269 000 (KTH share)
• SSF (Swedish Research Foundation for Strategic Research) Framework Grant Elektronics&Photonics, 2014-2019, EUR 3.5 million (PI)
• H2020 RIA project "M3TERA", 2015-2018, EUR 986 000 (KTH share)
• ERC Consolidator Grant 2013 (2014-2019), "TERAMICROSYS", EUR 1.72 million (PI)
• KAW project "THzBridge" (2014-2019), EUR 650 000 (KTH share)
• Vinnova/NORDITE research project 2006-2010, EUR 2.4 million (PI)

Course responsible for:

• EK2360 Hands-on Micro-Electromechanical Systems Engineering 7.5 credits (MSc level)
• EK2370 Build-your-own-Radar-System Project Course 7.5 credits (MSc level)
• EK2390 Project Course in Integrated Circuits for RF and Microwave Technology 7.5 credits (MSc level)
• FEK3360 Advanced Hands-on-MEMS course (PhD level)
• FEK3151-4 Electromagnetic Interactions with Microsystems I-IV (PhD level, journal club)

Publication list:click on the link publication list to the right (KTH DIVA publication database)