PhD in Telecommunications

The research centre WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) of KU Leuven focuses on wireless communication fundamentals and systems. In the WaveCoRE, the Networked Systems group led by Prof. Sofie Pollin covers research on various fields of wireless communications and networking such as Cell-Free Massive MIMO, Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), Internet of Things (IoT), Joint Communication and Sensing, Machine Learning-based Signal Processing, and Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT). KU Leuven coordinates the SpecX MSCA Doctoral Network, a Horizon Europe consortium that will recruit 15 doctoral researchers across several partner institutions in Europe. We aim to train 15 talented PhD students in the field of large-scale spectrum analytics, wireless communication and IoT connectivity. Each position corresponds to one of the 15 dedicated research topics within the network, hosted by different academic and industrial partners.