Jan Mietzner (Senior Member IEEE) was born in Rendsburg, Germany, on March 6, 1975. He studied electrical engineering at the Christian-Albrechts University (CAU) of Kiel, Germany, with focus on digital communications. During his studies, he spent six months in 2000 with the Global Wireless Systems Research Group, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs U.K., in Swindon, England. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the CAU Kiel in July 2001.
From August 2001 to October 2006 he was working toward his Ph.D. degree as a research and teaching assistant at the Information and Coding Theory Lab (ICT), CAU Kiel, and received his Ph.D. degree in December 2006. He received an award from the Friends of the Faculty of Engineering for the best dissertation in 2006. From January 2007 to January 2009 he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, as a post-doctoral research fellow sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
His research interests concern physical layer aspects of future wireless communication systems, especially multiple-antenna techniques, ultra-wideband and cognitive radio systems, relaying, and cooperative diversity techniques, software-defined radio, visible light communications, as well as theoretical aspects of jamming and radar systems. Dr. Mietzner has served as a TPC member for several international conferences such as IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC and as Lead Guest Editor for the EURASIP JASP Special Issue on 'Advanced Distributed Wireless Communication Techniques'. He is also a co-recipient of the 2010 Best Paper Award from the German Information Technology Society (VDE/ITG).
In March 2009 he joined Airbus in Ulm, Germany, where he has been working in the areas of communications jamming and radar systems. Since September 2017, he is a Professor for Communications Engineering at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). In September 2023 he joined the UBC as a Visiting Professor in the ECE department (for six months).
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