PhD in Rf Communications

Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia./nWe are searching for a creative, skilled, and ambitious candidate for our activities on how we can detect objects at sea using GNSS reflectometry. The same system can also be used to detect GNSS jamming and spoofing events from small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The PhD position will be at the NTNU SmallSat Lab, see www.ntnu.edu/smallsat for more information about the lab./nAs a PhD candidate in this project, your work will be to research how this monitoring can be done, and how it can feed into a larger system. Your focus will be on RF- and antenna design for reception of reflected GNSS signals. The research will also involve using software-defined radios (SDR) and digital signal processing for antenna beamforming./nThe project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council, under the project number 358547./nLocation: Trondheim, Norway.