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Centre for Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering

CELANE conducts high-quality research in the general areas of Electromagnetic and Microwave Engineering.

CELANE's expertise lies is in the areas of:

• Antennas for wireless computer networks, other wireless communication systems, mobile communications and GPS/non-GPS locating systems, including microstrip antennas, E-shaped patch antennas, dielectric-resonator antennas (DRA), planar inverted F antennas (PIFA), stacked patch antennas, hybrid resonator antennas, wide slot antennas, electromagnetic band gap (EBG) resonator antennas, ultra-broadband pulse transmitting and pulse receiving antennas, resistively loaded dipole and loop antennas, Luneberg lens antennas, antennas for radio astronomy.
• New theoretical methods in Electromagnetics, including new closed-form Green's functions for microstrip and other layered structures, enhanced FDTD method for diagonal metal edges, FDTD techniques for 2D and 3D photonic crystals, new close-form frequency-domain Method of Moments, time-domain Method of Moments for resistively loaded antennas, semi-analytical Bessel expansion method for loop antennas, analytical and semi-analytical methods for biological (bioelectromagnetic) systems (e.g. magnetic stimulation of neurons) and geological (geoelectromagnetic) systems, solving large electromagnetic problems with supercomputers and parallel computers.

CELANE is situated in the Electronic Engineering Department of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and is directed by Professor Karu Esselle.

News

PhD scholarships are available for highly qualified international (overseas) and domestic (Australia and New Zealand) students.

WHY PhD in CELANE is special?

• Excellent scholarships with full tuition waivers and an excellent living allowance (about $19,000 per year) that is tax-free. These include MQRES (unique to Macquarie University), APA and IPRS.
• Access to excellent funding schemes for your project and travel expenses, typically around $16,000 for a PhD over 3.5-4 years
• Funding to travel to conferences and to visit collaborators overseas through the above mentioned schemes
• Possibility of getting TWO PHD DEGREES for the same work and same thesis, one from Macquarie University and other from European, North American university through Cotutelle-type inter-university arrangements
• Supervision by staff who are know worldwide for their research achievements
• Excellent research facilities worth over a Million dollars (details on research page), including modern personal computers for PhD students, latest software etc. Facilities are frequently updated through external and internal grants. (see RIBG and LIEF grants in the Grants List.)
• Collaboration with top research groups around the world, and CSIRO - the Australian government research organisation
• Availability of supplementary scholarships from ICS and CSIRO (from $4,000 to $12,000 per year)
• Availability of teaching assistantships for additional income and/or teaching experience
• Qualified candidates can apply for MQRES, obtain scholarship and start studies anytime during the year.

Please contact Karu as soon as possible if you are interested in postgraduate scholarships.

Awards

Ghaffer Kiani was awarded the best student poster prize at WARS 2008 held in Gold Coast. He also received an award from Lund University in Sweden for his collaborative research. Dr Yuehe Ge of CELANE was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship for 2005-07 from ARC under Discovery scheme. He was also offered a very competitive Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MURF) for the same period, Yuehe accepted the ARC offer.This is a continuation of the success CELANE had in external and internal postdoctoral fellowship schemes. In 2005, Dr Nasimuddin was awarded a Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science (URSI). In 2004, Dr Nasimuddin, an overseas applicant, was awarded a three-year ARC (Discovery) postdoctoral fellowship. In 2003, Dr Andew Weliy received one of the five MURFs earmarked for that year. Later in the same year Andrew was awarded a Linkage (CSIRO) postdoctoral fellowship from the ARC in a very competitive round where 187 applicants competed for 10 fellowships.