Prof. Václav PAPEŽ was born in 1954 in Prague, Czech Republic. He received his M.Sc. degree in 1979 and the Ph.D. degree in radio electronics from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1984. Since 1984 to present he has been working at the Institut of information theory and automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, since 1985 he is a meber of the Department of Electrotechnology of Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He performed a short term stay at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen in 1990. His research interests are focused at the field of electronics devices technology and diagnostics, low-noise and high linearity radioectronics circuits design and technology and RF power electronics circuits. Prof. Václav PAPEŽ is the author or co-autor of more than 100 scientific publications, textbooks, conference proceedings and 24 patents and autorship certificates. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Czech Radio Club and The Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies. In amateur radio area he interesed in Earth-Moon-Earth radio communications technique.