Adrianus T. de Hoop

Adrianus T. De Hoop has made a huge impact on the world electromagnetic community, and on electromagnetic research and education in the Netherlands.

As Professor of Electromagnetic Theory and Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology, Dr. De Hoop’s research has included groundbreaking work on the use of reciprocity in formulating and solving problems in wave propagation, and establishing reciprocity as a unifying principle in direct and inverse scattering problems. This theory is included in his seminal 1995 Handbook of Radiation and Scattering of Waves, which also covers electromagnetic, acoustic, and elastodynamic wave propagation and scattering in complex media, anisotropic, and dispersive.

Dr. De Hoop’s pioneering work developing the Cagniard-De Hoop method, established the benchmark technique to compute wavefields in layered structures, and has become an indispensable tool in solving time-dependent propagation problems in complex media.

Recently, Dr. De Hoop’s research focuses on integrating theories of wave propagation and diffusion, which govern the behavior of seismic and electromagnetic fields in the earth. This could possibly lead to new ways of combining seismic and electromagnetic measurements, yielding better images of the subsurface of the earth.

Adrianus T. De Hoop was born on 24 December 1927, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He received his MSc in Electrical Engineering in 1950, and a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences in 1958, both from Delft University. In 1960, he became Professor of Electromagnetic Theory and Applied Mathematics there.

In 1964, Dr. De Hoop founded the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Research at Delft, which has developed into a world-class center for electromagnetics. He has been a Visiting Scientist with Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Schlumberger Cambridge Research in Cambridge, UK. In 1996, Dr. De Hoop was made the Lorentz Chair Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Delft University.

Dr. De Hoop is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. He holds an Honorary Doctorate’s Degree from Ghent University, Belgium, and received the Golden Research Medal of the Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands and Awards from the Stichting Fund for Science, Technology and Research, founded by Schlumberger Limited.