Joel Grotz

Joel Grotz received the joint degree in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and the Grenoble Institute of Technology in 1999, and the joint Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Luxembourg and KTH, Stockholm, in 2008. He was with SES, Betzdorf, Luxembourg, on the development of satellite broadband communication system design for GEO and MEO high-throughput satellite systems on different ground segment and space segment topics and system optimization aspects. He was with the Technical Laboratories, ST Engineering iDirect (former Newtec Cy with Sint-Niklaas, Belgium) on topics of system design and signal processing in satellite modems. He is currently a Senior Manager of SES on the development of a dynamic resource management system for novel flexible satellite systems, including SES-17 and O3b mPOWER, and future satellite systems under planning.