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Professor Hua Wang, currently Tenured Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, has been appointed as Full Professor of Electronics at D-ITET. Hua Wang conducts research into integrated circuits for applications in communications, sensor technology and bioelectronics. He will take up his new role as of August 2021.

Gwendolin Rohner has received the Ernst Blickle Studienpreis 2020 for her outstanding Master's thesis "Highly-​Dynamic Magnetically-​Levitated Linear-​Rotary Double Stator Actuator System".

Sebastian Kozerke, Professor at the Institute for Biomedical Imaging (IBT), on the future of MRI examinations. These will become less uncomfortable and take less time.

UWB communication is a fast rising technology, which will facilitate indoor localisation, navigation, and boost secure communication between smart devices. Michele Magno, Head of the Center for Project-​based Learning (D-​ITET), implements new power-​saving features for this technology so that it can work efficiently in mobile devices.

Rare transitions between long-lived metastable states are at heart of many processes in nature and technology. Prof. Lukas Novotny and researchers from his team together with colleagues from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna have now investigated the dynamics of such transitions for active matter and have published their findings in Nature Communications.

Prof. Lothar Thiele received the 2021 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.