PhD studentship: Phase-space methods for smart electromagnetic environments (3.5 years)

Reference

SCI2048

Closing Date

Thursday, 31st March 2022

Department

Mathematical Sciences

Applications are invited from Home/EU students for a fully funded PhD studentship offered within the School of Mathematical Sciences for Phase-space methods for smart electromagnetic environments.

This project will be based at the University of Nottingham in the School of Mathematical Sciences, with frequent (funded) travels to the University of Cambridge in the Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wireless infrastructures for beyond 5G/6G generation of mobile communication systems are required to guarantee unprecedented link performance levels, while minimizing the complexity, the power consumption, and the cost of the architecture. Therefore, alternative solutions to the approach “more information and data through more power and more emissions of electromagnetic waves” are mandatory because of the existing electromagnetic congestion. The solution proposed by the EU Horizon2020 ICT52 RISE-6G project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017011 ) is to consider a propagation environment that can be reconfigured via large wall-mounted reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs): A smart electromagnetic environment (SME). Together with wireless infrastructure and users, the SME are treated as a whole system to be optimised for improving the performance of the wireless communication channel.

We are looking for candidates with knowledge and interest in one or several of the following topics: wave asymptotics, electromagnetism, metamaterials, numerical methods. While experience with more than one of the mathematical fields would be beneficial, please note the willingness to learn and engage with all of them is an absolute necessity. The project requires the student to have experience with a scientific computing software package or programming language such as MATLAB, C/C++ and/or Python.

Funding Notes: This funded studentship is open to Home/EU students ONLY. Funding includes full tuition fees and stipend at the RCUK rate (subjective to change, for 2021/22 academic year this was £15,609). There will also be some funds available to support conference attendance. 

Entry requirement

Graduate with a 1st class degree in Mathematics, preferably at MMath/MSc level, or an equivalent overseas qualification (in exceptional circumstances a 2:1 class degree, or equivalent, can be considered).

Application Process

Please note that this post will close as soon as the studentship is filled.  

If you are interested in this studentship, please email your interest to Gabriele Gradoni ([email protected] ). If successful, you may be invited for an interview where further information on application process will be provided. 

Enquiries

Please contact Gabriele Gradoni via [email protected]