Biography of Jaap Haartsen

Jaap Haartsen was born the 13 of February 1963, in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1986 he obtained his  master science degree in electrical engineering. After a brief period, he continued his studies and in 1990 obtained a PhD degree from TU Delft with honors defending the thesis titled Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters.Since 1991 he worked for Ericsson, first in USA between 1991 and 1993 and later, between 1993 and 1997, in Sweden. Working for Ericsson  Mobile Terminal Division in Lund, he developed Bluetooth specification. Between 1997 and 2008 he was a part-time professor at University of twente, teaching mobile radio communications systems. In this moment he isa Dutch electrical engineer.