Board

Chairman · In Memoriam

Prof. Dr. Ir. Durk van Willigen †

27 April 1934 – 20 October 2026

Prof. Dr. Ir. Durk van Willigen studied Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he received his M.Sc. and PhD and later became professor of electronic systems for navigation. He founded Reelektronika and was the inventor of Eurofix, which combines satellite navigation with Loran-C/eLoran, and co-developer of eDLoran. For his outstanding contributions to navigation he received the Thurlow Award of the US Institute of Navigation, the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of Navigation, of which he was a Fellow, and the Medal of Merit of the International Loran Association. As chairman of the GAUSS Research Foundation he inspired and guided its research. We remember him with gratitude.

The position of chairman is currently vacant.

Vice-chairman

Ir. Cornelis (Cees) Dekker

Cornelis Dekker graduated from Delft University of Technology. He taught Telecommunications at the Royal Military Academy (KMA) in Breda. At Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands he worked on Tamed-Frequency-Modulation (TFM), for which he received the national Veder Award. He then moved to Magnavox Research Laboratories in Los Angeles to work on GPS. Next he was active as a consultant in GPS applications. At Reelektronika in the Netherlands he is technical system designer and consultant for eLoran, and Technical Director.

Chief scientist

Prof. Dr. Ir. Leo P. Ligthart

Prof. Dr. Ir. Leo P. Ligthart received his M.Sc. (cum laude) and PhD from Delft University of Technology. He was professor of Microwave Transmission, Radar and Remote Sensing at TU Delft and for many years director of the International Research Centre for Telecommunications and Radar (IRCTR). His expertise covers antennas, radio propagation, radar and remote sensing, with more than 600 publications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the IET, holds three honorary doctorates, chairs CONASENSE, and is adjunct professor at ITS Surabaya.

Secretary

Dr. Homayoun Nikookar

Dr. Homayoun Nikookar received his PhD from Delft University of Technology, where he became Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and led the Radio Advanced Technologies and Systems (RATS) programme. His research covers radio propagation, ultra-wideband and wavelet-based adaptive radio systems. He is the author of Introduction to Ultra Wideband for Wireless Communications (Springer) and Wavelet Radio (Cambridge University Press), and received several paper awards as well as TU Delft’s Supervisor of the Year Award.