The University of Stellenbosch has appointed Stefan J. 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.”
Published by the editorial team, 27 September 2016
Supported by travel funds from the EC FP7 MIDprep programme, Stefan 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 modelling of the research group at the University of Stellenbosch. This led to constructive involvement of Stefan in a number of ongoing projects at the University of Stellenbosch.
This appointment formalizes this fruitful collaboration and will strengthen the ties between ASTRON and the University of Stellenbosch in the context of the SKA.