Howard C. Reader

Howard C. Reader (M’09–SM’10) received the B.Sc. (EE) Eng. (first class Hons.) degree from Kings College, London, U.K., in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in time domain electromagnetics from St. Johns College, Cambridge, U.K., in 1985. From 1986 to 1994, he was a Lecturer, a Senior Lecturer, and an Associate Professor with the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. From 1994 to 2014, he was the Chair of high frequency electronics in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa. He took early retirement in 2015 and remains an Emeritus Professor. He is currently an Innovation Process Manager in a technical company in Austria and consults on a 10% time basis each week to MESA Solutions working on Square Kilometre Array electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) topics in South Africa. His research interests include EMC, high-frequency metrology and microwave dielectric heating. He has published widely in his research fields and coauthored an Artech House book on microwave heating cavities. Dr. Howard cofounded the South African IEEE EMC Chapter, he is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer (U.K.), and served as South Africa's Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale Commission E (EMI) chair for many years until 1994.