Doctoral scholarship holder Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for future 6G wireless networks

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Doctoral scholarship holder Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for future 6G wireless networks Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): L'Università di Anversa cerca un borsista di dottorato a tempo pieno nel campo della Sensing e Comunicazioni Integrate a Campo Vicino (ISAC) per le future reti wireless 6G. Il candidato lavorerà nel progetto Horizon Europe QUEST-6G, sviluppando tecniche di elaborazione del segnale e nuovi algoritmi per ottimizzare le prestazioni di comunicazione e rilevamento. È richiesta una laurea magistrale in Informatica, Telecomunicazioni, Ingegneria Elettrica o un campo correlato. Il ruolo prevede anche la scrittura di rapporti tecnici e la partecipazione a conferenze. Il candidato ideale deve avere ottimi risultati accademici e competenze nella comunicazione wireless e nell'elaborazione del segnale. Let’s shape the future - University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp is a dynamic, forward-thinking, European university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research and play an important service-providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international and most innovative employers in the region. With more than 6000 employees from 100 different countries, we are helping to build tomorrow's world every day. Through top scientific research, we push back boundaries and set a course for the future – a future that you can help to shape. The Department of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology in the Faculty of Applied Engineering is looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the field of Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for future 6G wireless networks. The offered position contributes to the Horizon Europe QUEST-6G project that introduces a framework combining reconfigurable intelligent systems, XL antenna arrays, new transmission modes, and quantum technologies to realize a multi-band, multi-functional 6G vision. Unlike conventional wireless systems operating only in the far field, future 6G deployments with XL antenna arrays naturally extend the radiative near-field region, where electromagnetic wave propagation follows spherical rather than planar wavefronts. This creates new opportunities for localization, environmental sensing, user tracking, gesture recognition, and high-resolution spatial mapping while simultaneously providing reliable wireless communications. Position You will conduct high quality research under the supervision of Prof. Raf Berkvens and Prof. Jeroen Famaey as a member of the IDLab research group at imec and the University of Antwerp. You will closely collaborate with other researchers at IDLab. You will develop novel theoretical frameworks and signal processing techniques (traditional and/or AI based) for Near-Field ISAC in distributed cell-free 6G networks. The research will investigate the fundamental principles of hybrid Near-Field/Far-Field wave propagation and beam forming, exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom provided by spherical wavefronts to jointly optimize communication and sensing performance. You will design and analyse new algorithms for beam forming, beam focusing, localization, and sensing using XL and distributed reconfigurable antenna arrays. The aim is to enable simultaneous user communication, target detection, localization, tracking, and environmental sensing. The developed methods will be analytically characterized, optimized, and validated through simulation and experiments. IDLab has world-class research infrastructure, including a 6G Perceptive Radio Lab to conduct ISAC experiments with Software Defined Radios and programmable beamformers in a wide range of frequency bands. You will write detailed technical evaluation reports on the developed solutions, implementation, and experiments, leading to publications in major conferences and journals in the field of wireless communications, and/or embedded computing. You will carry out a limited number of teaching and research support tasks for the Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology Department (at most 20% of your time). Profile You have a master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field, or you will have obtained it by the time you start. You can demonstrate excellent study results (as a minimum requirement distinction and preferably great distinction). Your teaching competences are in line with the University of Antwerp’s educational vision . Your research qualities are in line with the faculty and university research policies . You act with attention to quality, integrity, creativity and cooperation. You have a profound knowledge of wireless communications and signal processing. You have at least intermediate knowledge of electromagnetic Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).