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Open position of the Industrial PhD Researcher on designing polarimetric antenna elements

• Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Section MS3 offers a PhD position on designing polarimetric antenna elements for wide scanning polarimetric arrays, including the beamforming network, to achieve maximal isolation between polarimetric channels while keeping similar phase shifts and propagation losses for all elements.

See the vacancy description, here.

Charlote Frenkel and Kofi Makinwa involved in major NWO grants under the KIC programme line Strategy

• Friday, 8 May 2026

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded funding under the Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC) to two consortia for a long-term programme (LTP) involving researchers from TU Delft. David Abbink (ME/IDE) is even the lead applicant for one of the awarded projects. This is the first time TU Delft has received an LTP as the lead applicant. Kofi Makinwa (EWI) and Charlotte Frenkel (EWI) are co-applicants in another awarded project. 

The LTP programme offers researchers, businesses and civil society organisations the opportunity to collaborate on a large scale on long-term, transdisciplinary research projects. The selected projects will receive a total of €65 million from NWO. Corporations and other organisations will also contribute an additional €182 million euros.

Researchers from TU Delft involved in two major NWO grants under the KIC programme line Strategy

Best student paper award for Mareike Wendelmuth (MS3)

• Monday, 4 May 2026

Mareike Wendelmuth (MS3 group) won the First Prize in the Best Student Paper Awards at the IEEE IMBIOC 2026 conference for her paper entitled “Breathing rate estimation from data fusion of multiple elevated and tilted FMCW radars”.