Jeroen Van der Straeten received the fourth prize in the URSI Student Paper Prize Competition at the URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Krakow, Poland, held between 15 and 22 August 2026. The title of his work was "Comparing Quad Band Uniaxial and 5G Triaxial RF-EMF Exposure Sensors at 3.5 GHz". (Sept 2026)
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Jirka Verleysen received a shared 4th place award for Best Student Presentation at the 19th Biennial Castle Meeting, an international conference focusing on rock, paleomagnetic and environmental magnetism held in Collonges-la-Rouge, France. The award recognizes the outstanding quality of her presentation entitled “MAGSCREEN: Shielding against the Earth's Magnetic Field: Experimental and Simulation-Based Evaluations of Materials Performance". (Aug. 2026)
Job Opening: Researcher for network modeling tool for Integrated planning of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. Read more here. (July 2026)
Job Opening: Researcher for Digital Twin Mapping of 5G-6G dynamic electromagnetic field environments. Read more here. (July 2026)
On March 26th, imec-WAVES (Ghent University) organized the second PhD Forum featuring four inspiring talks from our researchers. Topics spanned neuromodulation (intended and unintended), spatial diversity and multiplexing in industrial Massive MIMO environments, magnetic shielding performance, and RF-EMF exposure assessment. Read more here. (March 2026)
Robin Wydaeghe won the third prize in the Sim4Life Student Competition 2025. Congratulations! Read more here. (Jan 2026)
On November 7th, imec-WAVES (Ghent University) organized a PhD Forum featuring four inspiring talks from our researchers, each presenting innovative work across wireless communication, sensing, and AI. Read more here. (Dec 2025)
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June 13 -18, 2027
BioEM 2027
Gdansk, Poland
April 18 -23, 2027
EuCAP 2027
Düssledorf, Germany
June 26 - July 4, 2026
Biennal Castle Meeting: New trends on Rock, Paleo and Environmental magnetism
Collognes-La-Rouge, France
Newest Vacancies
- Researcher for network modeling tool for Integrated planning of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks
- Researcher for Digital Twin Mapping of 5G-6G dynamic electromagnetic field environments
- Researcher for 5G and 6G electromagnetic field exposure modelling and assessment
- Top researcher for physical layer radio channel modelling for 5G networks
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Earlier newsOn Saturday December 10th 2022, professor Sarah Verhulst received the award "Laureate of the Academy" in the class Technical Sciences. This is one of the most prestigious awards of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Young, promising researchers (up to 40 years old), whose main activity is situated in Flanders, are eligible for this. (Dec. 2022)
German Castellanos won the award for the best presentation of the day of the Annual Conference of Informatics, MUltimedia and Telecommunications Technologies, LACETEL, (ACIMUTT 2022) in CUBA with the presentation “60 GHZ NETWORK PLANNING FOR FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS.” (1-3 Nov 2022)
David Toribio won the award for interdisciplinary research at FEARS 2022 with his poster entitled “Radio-Frequency Absorption of a Western Honey Bee in the Near Field of Antennas”. (28 Oct 2022)