Focus Period Linköping University 2025
Professor
Michigan State University (United States)
Jeffrey Nanzer received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. In 2016, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University where he held the Dennis P. Nyquist Assistant Professorship from 2016-2021. He directs MSU’s Electromagnetics Laboratory, which consists of the Antenna Lab, the Radar Lab, and the Wireless Lab. He has published more than 250 papers, one book, and two book chapters, and has six patents. Dr. Nanzer was the recipient of the Withrow Junior Distinguished Scholar Award in 2024, the Google Research Scholar Award in 2022 and in 2023, the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2019, the DARPA Director’s Fellowship in 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2018, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2017. He was a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (Tatsuo Itoh Class of 2022–2024). His research interests are in the areas of distributed wireless systems, antennas, arrays, radar, millimeter-wave imaging, and microwave photonics.