Adrianus de Hoop

Adrianus Teunis "Aad" de Hoop (born 24 December 1927) is a Dutch electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist, and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology.

Career De Hoop worked as an assistant professor (1950–1957), associate professor (1957–1960), full professor (1960–1996), and Lorentz Chair emeritus professor (1996–present) for Delft University of Technology, his alma mater. He taught electromagnetic theory, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science. In 1970, he founded the Laboratory of Elecromagnetic Research at Delft; this has since developed into a world-class center for electromagnetics. He spent a year in 1956 as a research assistant at University of California's Institute of Geophysics in Los Angeles in the United States. During his time there, he created a modification of the Cagniard method for calculating impulsive wave propagation in layered media. This modification was later called the Cagniard-de Hoop method and is now considered a benchmark tool in analyzing time-domain wave propagation. He spent a year-long sabbatical at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in Eindhoven working on magnetic recording theory. Among his PhD students was Jacob Fokkema, later rector at Delft 2002–2010. 2002: Balthasar van der Pol Gold Research Medal - International Scientific Radio Union 2003: Knighthood - Order of the Netherlands Lion 2008: Honorary doctorate in mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences - Växjö University Foreign member - Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts

Personal life He performs choral music with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Choir and plays piano in his spare time. Prior to suffering a cerebral infarction in 2012 that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body, he cycled daily from his home in Bergschenhoek, where he lives with wife Annelies, to Delft.