Gerald Matz received the Dipl.-Ing. (1994) and Dr. techn. (2000) degrees in Electrical Engineering and the Habilitation degree (2004) for "Communication Systems" from Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Since Jan. 1995 he has been with the Department of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, where he currently holds a tenured Associate Professor position. From March 2004 to Feb. 2005 he was on leave as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (France). During July and August 2007, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Communication Theory Lab at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
Prof. Matz has directed or actively participated in several research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), by the Viennese Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and by the European Union. He has published some 140 scientific articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He is co-editor of the book Wireless Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels (New York: Academic, 2011). His research interests include wireless communications and networks, statistical signal processing, and information theory.
Prof. Matz serves as as a member of the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking and of the IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2006–2010), of the EURASIP Journal Signal Processing (2007–2010), and of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2004–2008). He was Technical Program Co-Chair of EUSIPCO 2004 and has been member of the Program Committee of numerous international conferences. In 2006, he received the Kardinal Innitzer Most Promising Young Investigator Award. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the ÖVE.
