Dr. Daniel W. O’Hagan currently works at Fraunhofer FHR in Bonn, Germany. Daniel was an associate Professor in Radar at the University of Cape Town and will occupied the post from mid-2014 to 2018.
Since 2009, Dr. O’Hagan has been employed as a Radar Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR) in Wachtberg, Germany. He has been extensively engaged in passive radar (commensal radar) research. Additional research interests have included VHF radar, antenna array design and beamforming, LPI techniques, low-observable platform design considerations, and bistatic clutter.
Dr. O’Hagan is the Chairman of the NATO Sensors and Electronics Technology group, “Advanced situation-specific modeling and vulnerability mitigation using passive radar technology SET-207”. He chairs a multinational team of distinguished scientists from throughout NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) nations.
From 2010 to 2013, Dr. O’Hagan has served as the German national representative to, and chairman of, the NATO “Advanced Modelling and Systems Applications for Passive Sensors group SET-164”. He has led research programmes concerning bistatic clutter analysis and studies to determine the suitability of passive radar for particular surveillance roles.
Dr. O’Hagan has been the project-leader on a nation-to-nation Technical Arrangement between Germany (FHR) and Australia (Defence Science and Technology Organisation – DSTO). In 2013, Dr. O’Hagan received a US Air Force Window-on-Science grant and was a visiting scientist at the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB).
He has obtained a Ph.D. in radar from University College London.