Patrice Brachat was born in Gourdon (France) in 1955. He
received a degree in telecommunications and electricity from
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris,
in 1978 and a Ph.D. degree from Université Paul sabatier
Toulouse in 1980 and the HdR (Habilitation à diriger les
Recherches) degree from Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis in
1998. In 1981 he joined the antenna departement of France
Telecom Research and Development and since 1992 he has been in
charge of an Antenna Research Group in the La Turbie Orange Lab.
Since 1992 he has also held scientific appointments at
university of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). Since 2008 he has
been co-head of the CREMANT, the antenna joint research center
between the Orange Labs, the Nice University and the CNRS
(National Scientific Research Center ). His professional
interests include the areas of antenna design, small antennas,
computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic modeling and
simulation. He has published over 80 papers in journals or
conferences, and holds 14 patents in these fields. In 1982 he
participated in the creation of JINA conference in NICE
(Journées internationales de Nice sur les Antennes). Since 1982
he has been a member of the JINA steering committee, in 1998 he
was in charge of scientific secretariat and since 2000 he has
been the vice chairman of this conference. In 2006 he
contributed to the birth of the EuCAP conference and was local
chairman of the successful EuCAP06 edition in Nice. Since 2006
he has been a member of the EuCAP Technical Committee and senior
member IEEE.
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