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- Alexandre Laisne,
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a.laisne@rl.ac.uk +44 1235 446396 +44 1235 445068 Space
Science and Technology Department Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory Chilton Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0QX UK |
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Background
"My education background is mainly in Electronics. I
studied Electrical Engineering at the
National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Rennes, from
1994 to 1999. I spent my final year (1999) at
Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, in the Electrical
and Electronic Engineering Department. Thanks to the double diploma scheme
between INSA and Strathclyde University, I graduated both at INSA (Electrical
Engineering Diploma) and Strathclyde University (Master in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering with European Studies) in June 1999. In November 1999, I
then started a Ph.D. in the microwave group of 'Institut d'Electronique et de
Telecommunications de Rennes', at INSA, whose subject was 'Study of Dielectric
Resonator Antennas (DRAs) using Finite Difference Time Domain Technique (FDTD)
and Multiple Region Finite Difference Time Domain Technique (MR/FDTD)'. I
defended this thesis on the 13 May, 2002, just before joining the
team. "
"In the course of my studies I got to travel to several places around the world..."
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Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) in summer 1997, where I worked in a pizza place. |
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Again, Fort Collins, Colorado (USA) in summer 1998. I carried out an internship in the Optical Computing Laboratory of Colorado State University, based on "associative search in holographic memories". |
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Glasgow, Scotland for my Engineering final year (September 1998 - June 1999). My final year project involved the simulation of electromagnetic characteristics of an ultrasound transducer, using HFSS. |
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Victoria, British Columbia (Canada) in summer 1999. I worked in the Computer Aided Design of Microwave Integrated Circuits (CADMIC) group of the university, mainly on the Coupled Integral Equation Technique (CIET) and simulations of waveguide filters using HFSS." |
"During these experiences abroad, I got to work with
international people, and I enjoyed that a lot. Since the beginning of
matched the end of
my PhD, being part of that international team was a must. Moreover, the subject
is really an extension of what I have been working on before, i.e. antennas,
numerical simulation and microwaves, and the applications, specially medical
ones, seem very interesting to me."
"The fact that innovation and teamwork are the main guidelines of the project was also a real motivation! A key point was also the fact that I did not have to worry about finding a place to stay, which can be cumbersome sometimes, and that we were given a lot of human and material means to realise the project."
