1 Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (ESR) on High Frequency Electronic Circuits in UK | Queen's University Belfast

Queens University Belfast and Bell Labs, two renowned institutions in the area of RF and communications technologies, are offering a unique opportunity for an Early Stage Researcher to undertake research in the framework of the project “Adaptive RF front-end for 4G communication systems and beyond”. The Early Stage Researcher will be funded up to 1.5 years by the prestigious FP7 Marie Curie European Industrial Doctorate (EID) programme ARTISAN.

The successful candidate must enrol in the PhD programme at Queens University Belfast and will work towards a PhD degree within the dynamic academic and industrial research groups conducting cutting-edge RF hardware technologies. The Early Stage Researcher will be required to spend 50% time working at the University and the other 50% at Bell Labs working on the project topic: “Adaptive antennas for interference mitigation in cellular wireless networks”.

The project scope includes:

• Adaptive multibeam, multiband antenna arrays with tailored radiation patterns.
• Array technologies for the realization of reconfigurable antennas.
• Mitigation of interference in adaptive base station antenna arrays.

By the time of appointment, applicants must:

• have at least 2.1 Honours Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, Physics or related discipline,
• be eligible and qualified for enrolment into PhD programme at Queens University Belfast,
• be in the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research career and have not yet been enrolled in PhD study and/or awarded the doctorate degree
• not have resided or carried out their main activity in the UK for more than 12 months