POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION RESEARCH Mission: “zero” power wireless transceivers In 2016, Poul Due Jensen Foundation and the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University agreed to work together to create a state-of-the-art laboratory in support of the wireless transceivers research group led by Professor Domenico Zito, who moved to Aarhus to head up the research. Two years down the line, we checked in with him to see how things were developing and to meet his new PhD associate, Michele Spasaro. Key achievements since 2016 Building a world-class academic centre of excellence from scratch in a young environment is a challenge. Nonetheless, Domenico Zito has managed to pass several milestones: • N ew teaching courses to expand the existing MSc degree programme in Electrical Engineering and key contributions to the development of the new BSc programme that is on the way to being rolled out. • 15+ publications in top international journals and international conferences. • The first Master’s student graduated in September 2018. His excellent thesis work has been accepted for presentation/publication at the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in December 2018. • The first step of the research programme toward low-power wireless transceivers has begun, and the first PhD student, Michele Spasaro, started in May 2018. • The last key pieces of the new lab were set up in October 2018 and the inauguration is being held in March 2019. • Professor Zito has secured an EU-funded FET (Future Emerging Technologies) project on integrated qubits for quantum computing in collaboration with excellent research partners from Europe and North America. The grant is worth about € 3 million and will run for the next four years. The grant will bring in two additional postdocs for his research group in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University. “Building a world-class academic centre of excellence from scratch in a young environment is a challenge. – Professor Domenico Zito Electronics engineering Electronics is a rigorous and dynamic discipline, requiring deep knowledge and innovative ways of thinking. Every student passing the associated courses with both theory and design will acquire an entire set of analytical and applied skills that will be key for many other engineering settings far beyond the origin in radiofrequency transceivers. 34
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