IMPACT IN GLOBAL RESEARCH

• 2020 European Research Council Research Consolidator Award, Prof Michalis Matthaiou - BEATRICE (Beyond Massive MIMO: Living at the Interface of Electromagnetics and Information Theory)
• 2020 Royal Irish Academy – Gold Medal, Prof Vince Fusco, for outstanding contributions to the Engineering Sciences.
• 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) – Research Chair / 5-year Fellowship, Prof Trung Duong, to lead a research team for “Towards Massive Connectivity to enable Ultra-Reliable and Near Zero-Latency Communications in 6G Networks”.
• 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) – 5-Year Fellowship, Dr Nidhi Simmons, for “Enabling mission-critical applications through an intelligent URLLC framework”.
• 2020 Leverhulme Trust – Research Leadership Award, Dr Okan Yurduseven, for “Developing solutions to acute threats: compressive imaging for real-time security screening”.

IMPACT IN TECH MARKETS

After years of research in the area of antennas and electromagnetic propagation for body-centric wireless communications, two of our research colleagues decided in 2020 to start up AntennaWare, to address the lack of dedicated, high-performance antenna solutions for wearables, focusing on medical and sports applications. Check out their progress and innovation at: antennaware.co.uk