Thomas Heyn received his degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.Ing.) from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen in 1996 and joined Fraunhofer IIS shortly after. Initially, he implemented several communication standards for satellite and terrestrial wireless transmissions based on Software-Defined Radio platforms and carried out field trials for performance assessments and propagation channel modeling. Since 2001, he is head of the Mobile Communications Group within the Broadband and Broadcast Department. His current research interests include future mobile networks, investigating evolutions of 5G and 6G technologies like Sidelink transmissions, Virtual-MIMO concepts, the convergence of broadcast and broadband, and integrated satellite/terrestrial networks. As a 3GPP delegate for Fraunhofer IIS since 2015, mainly for the RAN Plenaries, he was one of the first within 3GPP to integrate non-terrestrial networks and satellites into the 5G mobile communications standard.
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