[1] He was also named an IEEE Fellow in the year 2012, for development of the finite integration technique and impact of the associated software on electromagnetic engineering.
[4] As a research assistant at the Chair of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Thomas Weiland remained in TH Darmstadt for the next four years after receiving his diploma.
[14][15] In order to be able to use the results of his basic electromagnetic research for concrete technical developments, Weiland began in 1985 to bundle his scientific findings with regard to FIT in what was then a new type of software: MAFIA (Maxwell's Equations by the Finite Integration Algorithm), a CAD system, prepared by an international collaboration between DESY, KFA Jülich and LANL which had been initiatively set up by Weiland, quickly proved to be groundbreaking.
It allowed electromagnetic fields and their interactions to be modeled and simulated three-dimensionally, automatically and so realistically on the computer that time-consuming experiments or tests during prototype construction became largely superfluous.
CST GmbH quickly became the world market leader in the sector of electromagnetic field simulation in the time domain, with offices in 16 countries.
Worldwide, thousands of leading companies in various industries (such as the Bosch Group, Airbus Defence & Space or Dentsply Sirona) use this software grounded in the Finite Integration Technique.
[20] In the fourth quarter of 2016, CST AG became part of Dassault Systèmes SE and was thus integrated into Europe's second-largest software group after SAP.
Dassault Systèmes saw the integration of the CST solutions into its existing CAD applications as a forward-looking opportunity to set a new industry standard: for multiphysics and multiscale simulation of autonomous vehicles, networked buildings, medical equipment, wearable electronic devices, smartwatches and smart textiles as well as many other objects within the Internet of Things.
[21][22] Since 2017 he has been chairman of the supervisory board of ALCAN Systems GmbH which is active in the development of liquid crystal flat panel smart antennas.
He sees it as a place of autonomy and flexibility that allows scientists an extraordinary degree of freedom in both teaching and research – and to which, in his own words, he would like to "give something back" accordingly.