The 4 year Fellowships are funded by UKRI to help to stimulate and retain a strong environment for research and innovation in the UK. Read more about the Fellowships here.
Eddie joined the University in 2015 as Reader in Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and is a key member of the Communications research group. He also leads the EPSRC Millimetre Wave Measurement Laboratory hosted at Sheffield which is a flagship measurement facility accessible to UK universities and industry.
On receiving the Fellowship Eddie says ‘I’m delighted and excited to be selected for this prestigious Fellowship. It will allow me to explore areas of RF and radio research that fascinate me and will become pivotal to mobile radio communications systems in the future
“The millimetre wavelength (mmWave) bands covering 30GHz to 100GHz (and beyond) are stimulating a lot of international research and are the basis for my Fellowship transceiver research. This Fellowship aims to create new (mmWave) radio subsystems that, in concert, provide major power savings, cost savings and increases in RF performance, compared to today’s architectures. “
Before joining the Department Eddie worked for 20 years as a practicing RF Engineer in industry, most recently at Tunstall Healthcare. The Future Leaders Fellowship award recognises this skill and expertise as valuable and equivalent to a conventional academic path.
On working on the research side of RF Eddie says “The UK has a long history of leading innovation in RF Engineering. The current UK focus is being led by a new thrust into compound semiconductor research, globally-leading design houses and a few innovative manufacturers. The rise of mmWave as a carrier frequency for future radio communications has really reinvigorated the area of RF engineering and holds great promise for future industry and academic research. There are 10 industry partners in my project, all international leaders in their fields and representing key activity areas within the UK commercial sector.
This is a very exciting time to be an RF engineer, to help vision what new, beyond-next-generation systems will be and trigger multiple new areas of underpinning multidisciplinary RF research, for 6G and beyond. The Fellowship is a springboard into the research area, jointly at the right time in my career and also for the UK’s future technology need.”
To find out more about the EPSRC mmWave Measurement lab hosted at The University of Sheffield please watch the video below or contact Eddie on e.a.ball@sheffield.ac.uk.
