About

I was born in 1983 in Belgrade, Serbia. I attended "Drinka Pavlović" elementary and "Prva beogradska gimnazija" grammar school. In 2008 I graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade with major in telecommunications.

In 2006 I was a summer intern at the European Test Services (ETS) at ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, giving support in diverse testing assignments. In 2007, as a scholar of the Zoran Djindjic Foundation, I attended a six months internship at T-Systems, Stuttgart, working on network trunk management, documentation and UI conceptual design.

From 2008 to 2014 I worked at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt). As a member of the Antenna group within the Navigation department, I was involved in design and analysis of antenna systems for reception of GNSS signals. My main tasks were related to development of microstrip antenna elements, arrays and feeding circuits. I have also engaged in other topics, such as antenna-array signal processing, as well time-domain pulsed antenna systems.

From 2015 to 2021, I worked as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Belgrade - School of Electrical Engineering, where I defended my PhD thesis in 2020. Currently I work as an assistant professor at the same school.

Courses

Electromagnetics
Electric Circuit Theory
Practicum - Computer-Based Circuit Analysis
Antennas and wave propagation

Publications

First author:

1. N. Basta, A. Konovaltsev, L. Greda, "Investigating Phase Centre Variations Due to Digital Beamforming", Ansoft Seminar, Munich, Germany 2008.
2. N. Basta, A. Konovaltsev, and L. Greda, "Phase centre determination on the basis of far-field measurements," ENC-GNSS 2009, Naples, Italy, May 2009.
3. N. Basta, A. Dreher, "On antenna phase centre and its determination with Nelder-Mead simplex optimising algorithm," European Microwave Conf. 2009, pp.854-857, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 2009, Rome, Italy, 2009.
4. N. Basta, M. V. T. Heckler and A. Dreher, "Study on a stacked patch antenna element for dual-band GNSS arrays," 2010 IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, pp.1-4, 11-17 July 2010.
5. N. Basta and A. Dreher, "Beam Synthesis based on Inverse Discrete Radon Transform for Linear Pulsed Arrays", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 10, pp. 813-816, 2011.
6. N. Basta, A. Dreher, "Dual-band Antenna Element for a GNSS Array Intended for Public regulated Service Applications", Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2011 41st European , vol., no., pp. 531-534, 10-13 Oct. 2011.
7. N. Basta, A. Dreher, S. Caizzone, G. Kappen, M. Sgammini, M. Meurer, S. I. Butt, R. Stephan, M. A. Hein, E. Schäfer, M. A. Khan, A. Richter, L. Kurz, T. G. Noll, "System concept for a compact multi-antenna GNSS-receiver," COST VISTA Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2012 (1p).
8. N. Basta, A. Dreher, S. Caizzone, M. Sgammini, F. Antreich, G. Kappen, S. Irteza, R. Stephan, M. A. Hein, E. Schäfer, M. A. Khan, A. Richter, M. A. Khan, L. Kurz and T. G. Noll, "System concept of a compact multi-antenna GNSS receiver," German Microwave Conference (GeMiC) 2012, Ilmenau, Germany, March, 2012.
9. N. Basta, F. Antreich, "Circularly Polarized Antenna Array of Digitally Controlled Linearly Polarized Elements", AP-S 2013, Orlando, USA, July, 2013.
10. N. Basta, A. Dreher, "Discrete Radon transform method for beam synthesis with arbitrarily configured antenna arrays in pulsed transmission mode", Electronics Letters, Feb. 2013.
11. N. Basta, A. Dreher, "On Discrete Synthesis of Pulsed Beams", 2014 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2014), The Hague, Netherlands, April, 2014.
12. N. Basta, F. Antreich, A. Dreher, "Synthesis of Pulsed Radiation With a Linear Array of Nonisotropic Antennas", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, pp. 6131-6139, 2014.

Coauthor:

1. A. Konovaltsev, N. Basta, L. A. Greda, M. Cuntz, M. V. T. Heckler and A. Dreher, "Calibration of adaptive antennas in satellite navigation receivers", European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Barcelona, Spain, 12-16 April 2010.
2. J. L. Vicario, F. Antreich, M. Barceló, N. Basta, J. M. Cebrián, M. Cuntz, Ó. Gago, L. González , M. V. T. Heckler, C. Lavín, M. Mañosas, J. Picanyol, G. Seco-Granados, M. Sgammini, F. Amarillo, "ADIBEAM: Adaptive Digital Beamforming for Galileo Reference Ground Stations", Proc. ION GNSS 2010, in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 24, 2010.
3. J. L. Vicario, F.Antreich, M. Barceló, N. Basta, J. M. Cebrián, M. Cuntz, Ó. Gago, L. González , M.V.T. Heckler, C. Lavín, M. Mañosas, J. Picanyol, G. Seco-Granados, M. Sgammini, F. Amarillo," ADIBEAM: Design and Experimental Validation of a Robust Beamforming Platform for Galileo Reference Ground Stations", 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies, Navitec 2010, Dec. 2010, Noordwijk.
4. M. V. T. Heckler, E. N. Lavado, W. Elmarissi, N. Basta and A. Dreher, "Dual-band antenna with highly isolated outputs for global navigation satellite systems receivers", IET Microw. Antennas Propag., vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1381-1388, Dec. 2012.
5. S. Caizzone, N. Basta, A. Dreher, "Miniaturized CP Patch Antenna with Low Spurious Radiation for GNSS Applications", 2012 IEEE International Antennas and Propagation Symposium, , Chicago (USA), July 2012.
6. A. Dreher, N. Basta, S. Caizzone, G. Kappen, M. Sgammini, M. Meurer, S. Irteza, R. Stephan, M. A. Hein, E. Schäfer, M. A. Khan, A. Richter, B. Bieske, L. Kurz, and T. G. Noll, "Compact adaptive multi-antenna navigation receiver," ION GNSS 2012, Nashville, TN, USA, Sept. 2012, pp. 917-925.
7. S. Caizzone, N. Basta, A. Dreher, "Compact GNSS Antenna with Circular Polarization and Low Axial Ratio", 15th International Symposium of Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics 2012, Toulouse, France, June 2012.
8. L. A. Greda, C. Koenen, N. Basta, A. Dreher, "SEQAR: An Efficient MATLAB Tool for Design and Analysis of Conformal Antenna Arrays [EM Programmer's Notebook]," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol.56, no.4, pp.178-187, Aug. 2014