Miguel Ferrando Rocher has been awarded the COIT-AEIT AIRBUS Space and Defense Award

On June 14th, the ceremony of delivery of the Telecommunication Engineers Awards COIT-AEIT took place at the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain. These awards reflect a commitment to excellence in the training and development of Telecommunication Engineers.

The awards are backed by sponsoring entities, which in this 39th edition have been: Adeslas, Airbus, Caja de Ingenieros, Ericsson, Fermax, Hisdesat, Hispasat, Huawei, IBM, In-nova, Isdefe, Reintel, Sabadell Profesional, Fundación Telefónica, Ubica, and Viewnext.

These companies reward the best final career projects, MSc thesis, academic trajectories, and Ph.D. thesis.

In this 39th edition, Dr. Miguel Ferrando Rocher, a researcher at the iTEAM Electromagnetic Radiation Group, has been awarded the AIRBUS Space and Defense Award for his doctoral thesis based on new antenna solutions in the millimeter wave-band for satellite communications.

Dr. Miguel Ferrando Rocher received the award from Carlos Montesano, R&D Director of Airbus Spain.