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Jorgen Bach Andersen received the M. Sc. and Dr. Techn. degrees from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark, in 1961 and 1971, respectively. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary degree from Lund University, Sweden. From 1961 to 1973, he was with the Electromagnetics Institute, DTU and since 1973 he has been with Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, where he is now a Professor Emeritus.
He has been a Visiting Professor in Tucson, Arizona, Christchurch, New Zealand, Vienna, Austria, and Lund, Sweden. From 1993-2003, he was Head of the Center for Personkommunikation (CPK), dealing with modern wireless communications. He has published widely on antennas, radio wave propagation, and communications, and has also worked on biological effects of electromagnetic systems. He was on the management committee for COST 231 and 259, a collaborative European program on mobile communications, and management member of previous COST actions on bioelectromagnetics. He was recently project coordinator for the Danish research program on possible health effects from mobile phone systems.
Professor Andersen is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a former Vice President of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) from which he was awarded the John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal in 2005. He was founding chairman of URSI Commission K.
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