PhD Theses Completed in the Electromagnetics Group

Below you find a list of PhD theses completed by academic year.

D-band transmitters for analog radio-over-fiber technology and active antenna arrays

Author: Reinier Broucke

Promoters: Guy Torfs, Sam Lemey

Defense Date: 08-01-2026

Innovative energy harvesting and ultra-wideband solutions for battery-free wearables and wireless communication systems

Author: Jelle Jocqué

Promoters: Jo Verhaevert, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 20-10-2025

mmWave-over-fiber distributed antenna systems for next-generation wireless applications

Author: Arno Moerman

Promoters: Sam Lemey, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 14-02-2025

Bridging the terahertz gap : high-speed photodiodes on silicon nitride

Author: Dennis Maes

Promoters: Bart Kuyken, Sam Lemey, Emilien Peytavit

Defense Date: 17-12-2024

Design of novel antenna systems for the massively integrated internet of everything

Author: Nicolas Claus

Promoters: Jo Verhaevert, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 13-12-2024

Novel statistical methods for the design and characterization of wireless systems for joint communication and sensing

Author: Seppe Van Brandt

Promoters: Jo Verhaevert, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 17-10-2024

Advanced antenna system design based on packaged components for next-generation communication applications

Author: Laura Van Messem

Promoters: Sam Lemey, Olivier Caytan

Defense Date: 06-09-2024

Spherical-harmonics-based analysis and characterization of near-field antenna systems

Author: Alessandro Felaco

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Dries Vande Ginste

Defense Date: 01-02-2024

Advanced antenna systems for conformal integration in smart objects and for mmWave-over-fiber distributed antenna systems

Author: Igor Lima de Paula

Promoters: Patrick Van Torre, Sam Lemey

Defense Date: 23-01-2023

Development of low-cost and low-power wearable sensor nodes based on bluetooth low energy

Author: Nick De Raeve

Promoters: Jo Verhaevert, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 28-10-2022

Highly efficient, ultra-wideband, air-filled substrate-integrated- waveguide antenna technology for next-generation wireless systems

Author: Quinten Van den Brande

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Sam Lemey

Defense Date: 07-10-2021

Innovative substrate-integrated-waveguide-based antenna systems for the fifth-generation wireless communication network

Author: Kamil Yavuz Kapusuz

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Sam Lemey

Defense Date: 02-07-2021

Techniques for characterizing and enhancing the performance of long-range wireless sensor networks

Author: Thomas Ameloot

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 30-06-2021

Electromagnetically coupled microstrip textile patch antenna design model and construction process for smart clothing applications

Author: Ruben Del-Rio-Ruiz

Promoters: Jon Legarda, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 18-05-2021

Design of textile antennas and flexible WBAN sensor systems for body-worn localization using impulse radio ultra-wideband

Author: Dries Van Baelen

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Jo Verhaevert

Defense Date: 19-04-2021

Performance measures for nonlinear energy sinks in mitigating single and multi-mode vibrations: theory, simulation and implementation

Author: Kevin Dekemele

Promoters: Mia Loccufier, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 13-04-2021

Novel full-wave modeling techniques for materials with high contrast and stochastic permittivity profiles

Author: Michiel Gossye

Promoters: Dries Vande Ginste, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 28-01-2020

Design of low-profile and photonic-enabled antenna systems

Author: Olivier Caytan

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Sam Lemey

Defense Date: 12-02-2019

Stochastic full-wave modeling for the variability analysis of textile antennas

Author: Marco Rossi

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Dries Vande Ginste

Defense Date: 19-12-2016

Modeling of radiative near-field interactions for electromagnetic compatibility and wireless power transfer assessment

Author: Gert-Jan Stockman

Promoters: Dries Vande Ginste, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 22-08-2016

Low-profile antenna systems for the Next-Generation Internet of Things applications

Author: Sam Lemey

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Jan Vanfleteren

Defense Date: 11-08-2016

Reliable high-data rate body-centric wireless communication

Author: Thijs Castel

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 22-06-2016

Full-wave multiconductor waveguide analysis and a Calderón preconditioner for the heterogeneous Poincaré-Steklov operator

Author: Dieter Dobbelaere

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Daniël De Zutter

Defense Date: 13-11-2015

Design and implementation of textile antennas and wearable systems with high body-antenna isolation

Author: Sam Agneessens

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 05-05-2015

Electromagnetic modelling of wideband wired and wireless interconnections

Author: Thomas Cuyckens

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Daniël De Zutter

Defense Date: 03-03-2015

Integration of electronic systems on wearable textile antenna platforms

Author: Peter Vanveerdeghem

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Jos Knockaert, Patrick Van Torre

Defense Date: 17-02-2015

Design strategies for high performance GNSS textile antennas

Author: Arnaut Dierck

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Frederick Declercq

Defense Date: 12-11-2014

Spatial priors for tomographic reconstructions from limited data

Author: Funing Bai

Promoters: Wilfried Philips, Aleksandra Pizurica, Ann Franchois

Defense Date: 25-09-2014

Hybrid electromagnetic simulation techniques for the computer-aided design of flexible antennas

Author: Freek Boeykens

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 12-11-2013

Design of linear regression based localization algorithms for wireless sensor networks

Author: Frank Vanheel

Promoters: Ingrid Moerman, Jo Verhaevert, Eric Laermans

Defense Date: 16-09-2013

Electromagnetic compatibility and signal integrity aware modeling and design of electronic circuits

Author: Celina Gazda

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Dries Vande Ginste

Defense Date: 13-11-2012

MIMO and beamforming techniques for reliable off-body communication using textile antennas

Author: Patrick Van Torre

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Jo Verhaevert

Defense Date: 09-05-2012

Implantable and wearable antennas for body-centric communication

Author: Maria Lucia Scarpello

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Dries Vande Ginste

Defense Date: 17-02-2012

Experimentele en theoretische optimalisatie van de prestaties en controle van het ICRH-systeem van ITER

Author: Djamel Grine

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier, Guido Van Oost, Michael Van Schoor

Defense Date: 13-02-2012

Strategieën voor de karakterisatie en het ontwerp van actieve textielantennes

Author: Frederick Declercq

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 27-09-2011

Compact modeling of ultra wideband systems

Author: Wouter Dullaert

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 22-09-2011

Hybride modellerings- en optimalisatietechnieken voor antennesystemen

Author: Pieterjan Demarcke

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 01-01-2011

Wearable textile antennas for wireless off-body communication between rescue workers : prototyping, modeling and testing

Author: Luigi Vallozzi

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 11-10-2010

A 2.5D electromagnetic quantitative inverse scattering technique to visualize concealed objects using millimeter waves

Author: Sara Van den Bulcke

Promoters: Ann Franchois

Defense Date: 18-03-2010

Design of planar antennas based on textile materials

Author: Carla Hertleer

Promoters: Lieva Van Langenhove, Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 14-09-2009

On the 3D electromagnetic quantitative inverse scattering problem: algorithms and regularization

Author: Jürgen De Zaeytijd

Promoters: Ann Franchois

Defense Date: 16-01-2009

Direction-of-arrival estimation and beamsteering using realistic antenna arrays

Author: Roald Goossens

Promoters: Hendrik Rogier

Defense Date: 25-09-2008

High-resolution DOA extraction (for wireless communication systems): theoretical analysis and experimental verification

Author: Jo Verhaevert

Promoters: Emmanuel Van Lil, Antoine Van de Capelle

Defense Date: 01-07-2005