CLAUDE OESTGES received the Electrical Engineering degree and the PhD degree in Applied Science from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), in 1996 and 2000, respectively.

From 1996 to 2000, he was an Assistant Lecturer in the Microwave Laboratory UCL, with lectures in electromagnetic, wireless communications and microwave engineering. His doctoral research dealt with propagation models and performance prediction methods for LEO satellite and High-Altitude-Platform (HAP) networks. In 1997, he spent two months at the Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey (UK). He was also involved in the European COST 255 Action "Radiowave propagation modeling for new SatCom services at Ku-band and above".

From January to December 2001, Claude Oestges joined, as a post-doctoral scholar, the Smart Antennas Research Group (Information Systems Laboratory) of Stanford University (California, USA). He was involved in the development of MIMO multi-polarized channel models for broadband wireless access in the field of G2 MMDS technology (consultancy for Sprint, Inc.).

From October 2001 to September 2005, Claude Oestges was a post-doctoral fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS), associated with the Microwave Laboratory UCL. Meanwhile, he carried out several short-term missions at Stanford University, and took part in COST 273 "Towards mobile broadband multimedia networks", in NEWCOM Network of Excellence and in the IEEE 802.11 Standardization Working Group on “Multiple antenna channel modeling”.
Since October 2005, he is a FNRS Research Associate and part-time Associate Professor at UCL. His research interests cover wireless and satellite communications, with a specific focus on the propagation channel and its impact on system performance. His present activity concerns spatial channel models for MIMO wireless communications, UWB systems, satellite propagation and random space-time fields. Claude Oestges received the 1999-2000 IEE Marconi Premium Award in 2001 and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2004 Neal Shepherd Award in 2005.