REVOLVE organised a science day for all primary three students at George Heriot School in Edinburgh. The event took place on Tuesday 11 December in the school premises addressing the theme of electricity. REVOLVE brought a number of hands on experiments to illustrate the concept of conductance and how to use play-dough or pencils in […]
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REVOLVE and Explorathon 2018
REVOLVE participated in Edinburgh’s Explorathon 2018 in collaboration with Leith Labs! The venue this year was the popular Shopping Centre located in Ocean Terminal. One of the activities carried out at the event showed how researchers at the Microwave and Antenna Engineering Group at Heriot-Watt University are working to use traditional electromagnetic concepts to wirelessly transmit power that […]
REVOLVE cross-fertilises with QV-LIFT
A joint workshop between the H2020 projects REVOLVE and QV-LIFT took place at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh on 4 December 2018. The workshop was attended by partners from both consortia, including from REVOLVE: Thales Alenia Space, Large Space Structures, Prodintec, CNRS and from QV-LIFT: Eutelsat, MBI. The workshop involved a number of presentations from the […]
REVOLVE and the Midlothian Science Festival!
As part of the Midlothian Science Festival”, the Heriot-Watt team of the REVOLVE project is teaming up with Black Diamond FM for a hands on exploration of Radio waves on Sunday 14 October 2018 between 1-3pm. More information to follow!
Thales Alenia Space is committed to training tomorrow’s European engineers and researchers
A warm welcome to our seven new doctoral candidates who have started their programmes as part of the H2020 project REVOLVE. They will spend the next two months at Thales Alenia Space and will be mentored by Hervé Legay from the Research & Technology Department along with 15 experts from the company. The young researchers will use this two […]
Microwaves Student Receives First Place in International Symposium
PhD candidate Mr. Cristian Alistarh, jointly supervised by Dr. Symon Podilchak, Prof George Goussetis and Prof. John Thompson (The University of Edinburgh), reached the first place in the student paper competition at the International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM) 2018 for his paper “Spectral Smoothing by Multiple Radar Pattern Multiplication for Improved […]
PhD Studentship: Downhole Wireless RF Communications
There is an industry desire to create and extend the usage of RF wireless technologies to develop future digital-based oil fields. In particular, this PhD project will assess current evolving aspects of wireless technology to be adapted for providing sub-surface monitoring of Oil and Gas wells. Currently most well measurement communications systems employ permanently installed […]
REVOLVE and the Science in the City Festival
REVOLVE had a very successful participation in the Science in the City Festival which took place in Toulouse (9th-14th July 2018) as part of the 8th edition of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). REVOLVE fellows together with volunteers from the three institutions showcased their latest innovations and proposed scientific challenges to visitors in a friendly and interactive […]
Electromagnetic sensors for wearable healthcare applications
Wearable electronics technology for healthcare management, personal safety, and consumer products enhancement has the potential to transform our everyday life and improve the quality of living of healthcare patients and athletes. Non-invasive healthcare monitoring of body signal bio-parameters – such as movements, respiration, and temperature – without physical intervention or interaction with the patient is particularly […]
Infinect and REVOLVE
Infinect, prospective Heriot-Watt spin-out funded by the High Growth Spin-Out Programme run by Scottish Enterprise. This program supports academics to spin out their research and become entrepreneurs, funding only those projects with potential to achieve a £5 million turnover within five years. Dr. Carolina Mateo-Segura, who leads the technical team, said “Infinect’s technology will enable new markets for […]