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Telecommunications
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Research income: Since January 2005, the CTR has attracted over £3m in research funding; its current research funding support is £1.2m. Moreover, since 2001, the CTR has received £5.4m in research funding, and has participated, among others, in nine EU-funded projects and seven EPSRC-funded projects.
- Current staff: The Institute currently has 10 academic members, one RAs, three RFs, and 40 PhD students. This gives a ratio of approximately four PhD students for each academic member. The CTR successfully graduated over 60 PhD students since 2001.
- Recent publications: The Institute has an excellent publications record: its papers have been cited more than 14,000 times. It has published over 1,350 papers; it has published three books, over 25 book chapters, and has filed ,over 20 patents. The average number of citations per paper published by the Institute is more than 10. These statistics put the Institute in a select band of top groups in the UK undertaking wireless communications research.
- Current research projects: In 1996, the CTR was one of four selected founding academic members of the “Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications (Mobile VCE)”, a prestigious venture between industry and academia. Since then, the CTR remained as a major contributor to Mobile VCE. In 2008, the CTR was selected as one of the four research groups, among the 56 Universities that applied, to participate in the “Green Radio” work area of Mobile VCE’s Research Programme.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Hamid Aghvami
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
PhD - three years full-time, four-six years part-time.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Many of our students continue in academia, either as post-doctoral researchers or lecturers. Others work in industry.
Year of entry 2013
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