Dr. Michael Brandfass is the Associate Editor for Radar Systems of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine since 2023.

He has been acting as the Capability Technology Industry Rapporteur for Radar and RF-Systems of the European Defence Agency for many years and is a NATO Member at Large for the Radio-Frequency Technology Focus Group within the NATO Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel.

Dr. Brandfass works for Hensoldt Sensors as the Senior Expert for Radar Systems with more than 25 years of experience in this field, including technical support and consultancy on all topics of future Radar research programs related to Airborne, Spaceborne, and Naval & Ground Radars at Hensoldt.

He has been working in the field of Multifunctional RF Systems research for more than 10 years, developing Multifunctional RF System demonstrators and concepts, and leading the system designs and algorithm developments in this area.

Dr. Brandfass was the Chief Engineer for Airborne & Spaceborne Ground Surveillance Radars at Hensoldt for many years and acted as a Technical Radar Consultant and Reviewer on International Programmes such as the European Eurofighter AESA Radar.

From 2002 to 2006, he also led the System Engineer Integration & Testing group of the Radar Central Electronics of the TerraSAR-X satellite, which was successfully launched to orbit in 2006 and which is still in operation today.

From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Brandfass worked at Aero-Sensing Radar Systems in Germany, where he was team leader of the P-Band Radar development group, investigating novel polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry approaches for generating bald Earth digital elevation models.

From 1996 to 2000 he was with the University of Illinois, Dept. of Electrical & Computational Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate investigating nonlinear Inverse Scattering Methods and Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithms.

He completed his PhD at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany in 1996 on Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems with distinction.