Ton (A.M.J.) Koonen (IEEE M’00–SM’01–F’07) since 1979 worked for more than 20 years in applied research in broadband telecommunication systems, first as a member of technical staff at Philips Telecommunication Industry, and since 1987 as technical manager with Bell Laboratories (in AT&T Network Systems and in Lucent Technologies).

He also was a part-time Professor at Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands, from 1991 to 2000. Since 2001, he is a Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Electro-optical Communication Systems Group at the COBRA Institute, where he is the Chairman of this group since 2004.

His current research interests include broadband communication technologies and networks, in particular fiber access and in-building networks, radio-over-fiber networks, and optical packet-switched networks. He has initiated and led several European and national R&D projects on dynamically reconfigurable hybrid fiber access networks, fiber-wireless, packet-switched access, short-range multimode (polymer) optical fiber networks, and label-controlled optical packet routed networks.

Currently, he is involved in a number of access/in-home research projects in the Dutch IOP Generieke Communicatie programs, and in the European FP7 ICT program (amongst others ALPHA, POF-PLUS, and BONE).

He is also the chairman of the recently established ICT Innovation Platform ‘Duurzame ICT’ (sustainable ICT). He authored and co-authored more than 300 conference and journal publications.

Prof. Koonen is a Bell Laboratories Fellow since 1998, an IEEE Fellow since 2007, and an elected member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors since 2007.

He received the ICTRegie Award 2009 for the most innovative joint research activities with Dutch ICT industry.

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