Jacobus "Jaap" Cornelis Haartsen (born 13 February of 1963,

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, Netherlands) is a Dutch

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and

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, best known for being credited as the inventor of

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. He obtained his

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degree in 1986 in

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(with honors) at the

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in the Netherlands. After a brief period at

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in The Hague and

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, he continued his studies and in 1990 obtained a

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degree from the Delft University of Technology (also with honors) defending the thesis titled ''Programmable surface acoustic wave detection in silicon: design of programmable filters''. Since 1991 he worked for

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, first in United States between 1991 and 1993 and later, between 1993 and 1997, in Sweden. While working for Ericsson Mobile Terminal Division in

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, he developed the specification for

. Later, in 1997 he moved to Ericsson division in Emmen. Between 2000 and 2008 he was a part-time professor at

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, teaching mobile radio communications systems. He was a wireless expert at

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. In 2015, he was inducted into the

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. Currently, he is a partner of an Assen-based consumer electronics company, Dopple.

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