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26-10-2016
Stefan Wijnholds: Professor Extraordinary
| Submitter: | Jan Noordam |
| Description: | The University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) has appointed our very own Stefan Wijnholds as Extraordinary(*) Associate Professor. The appointment letter states that "the University created this category of appointments to give recognition to individuals for their proven specialized expertise and / or eminence in their profession and field of study, and to involve them in the academic programmes of the relevant Department." Supported by travel funds from the EC FP7 MIDprep programme, Stefan has visited the research group of SKA Research Chair Prof. David B. Davidson in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering several times over the last few years. His expertise in radio astronomical array signal processing and phased array system design proved to form a nice complement to the knowledge on antenna systems and electromagnetic modeling of the research group at the University of Stellenbosch. This led to constructive involvement of Stefan in a number of ongoing projects. This appointment formalizes this fruitful collaboration and will strengthen the ties between ASTRON and the University of Stellenbosch in the context of the SKA. (*) The term "extraordinary" here means "by special appointment", but it has a rather nicer ring to it. Editor's note: ASTRON is quietly proud of its track-record in nurturing more than its share of the bright young things who will design, build and operate the next generation of giant radio telescopes. Stefan is one of them, of course, as are Michiel Brentjes, Adam Deller, George Heald, Jason Hessels, Andre Offringa, V.N.Pandey, Oleg Smirnov, Bas van der Tol, Michael Wise, Sarod Yatawatta, and others... |
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