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Enabling young people to study and supporting university students, respectively, is also a very special concern of his. The Thomas
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quickly became the world market leader in the sector of electromagnetic field simulation in the time domain, with offices in 16 countries. 1998, the now further developed algorithms of the MAFIA software were re-embedded in its successor CST Microwave Studio and in 2005 again in the currently popular
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Weiland had already dealt with the numerical computation of electromagnetic fields in the course of his doctorate. This was not only to shape his own career. Particularly a few years later, it should revolutionize the general approach to prototype construction within electrical engineering and have a
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and flexibility that allows scientists an extraordinary degree of freedom in both teaching and research – and to which, in his own words, he would like to "give something back" accordingly. With this in mind, following the sale of CST AG in 2016, he provided the university with a sum for a new
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In the course of his time as professor and head of his institute at the TU Darmstadt, Thomas
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lasting influence on it to this day. A central position of
Weiland's calculations and his scientific work is occupied by his development of the Finite Integration Theory (FIT). He first presented this in 1977, as a consistent formulation for the discrete representation of
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Research Group and here he was able to eventually prove the wakefield transformation – which was previously invented by himself and G.A. Voss – with his wakefield experiment in 1987. Also within this period, Weiland completed his
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which had been initiatively set up by
Weiland, quickly proved to be groundbreaking. It allowed electromagnetic fields and their interactions to be modeled and simulated
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Weiland's scientific fields of activity within theoretical electrical engineering are complex. His core competences are research and further development of
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at the TH Darmstadt (later renamed TU Darmstadt) in 1989 – a position he held until 2017. In 1994 and 1997, he spent two
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