Tim Waterfield

Tim has a first class degree in Physics and completed the MBA course at the University of Bradford in 1981. Apart from three years working on Earth station antennas at ERA Technology Ltd (now Cobham) and two years as an overseas consultant in satellite antenna design in France, Spain and Canada, he has worked in the Antenna Group at Airbus since 1982, and as a Senior Specialist since 2000. He has been a key figure in the development of communications antennas for all generations of the Eurostar series of satellites, and has most recently been coordinating the development of space-based active array antennas for civil Telecoms. He lives in Cambridge, and has been a speaker on the IET Satcoms Course since 2003.