Focus Period Lund 2027
Professor
Blekinge Institute of Technology – BTH (Sweden)
Mats Pettersson received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has more than 30 years of experience in radar systems research from academia and industry, including positions at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Chalmers University of Technology, and Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Karlskrona, Sweden, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Prof. Pettersson’s research focuses on radar signal processing, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), radar remote sensing, and automotive radar systems. His work has contributed to the development of advanced algorithms for monostatic, bistatic, multistatic, and circular SAR systems, with particular emphasis on moving target indication, change detection, high-resolution imaging, and ultrawideband radar techniques. He has also conducted research in electromagnetic scattering, radio communications, THz sensing, and optical sensing systems for transportation and surveillance applications. In recent years, his work has expanded toward integrated sensing technologies and multistatic THz imaging systems for future industrial and wireless applications.
Prof. Pettersson has authored and coauthored more than 300 scientific publications in international journals and conferences and has contributed to several pioneering radar imaging and target detection systems. His research has resulted in widely cited contributions in SAR signal processing, automotive radar interference mitigation, and change detection algorithms. He has collaborated extensively with Swedish and international research groups through interdisciplinary projects in radar, wireless sensing, and remote sensing technologies.
He has served as reviewer and technical committee member for numerous IEEE journals and conferences in radar, geoscience, and signal processing. Prof. Pettersson is an active member of the international radar and remote sensing research community, with ongoing collaborations in advanced sensing systems, autonomous transportation technologies, and high-resolution radar imaging.