Post-doctoral position M/F on optimization of directive antennas

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description As part of the OPALE collaborative project – 'Obturateurs et panneaux rayonnants reconfigurables' – between the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and the AID (gence Française d'Innovation et de Défense), French academic research laboratories (CEA LETI, ICMCB, IETR, Telecom Paris and XLIM) are joining forces to propose innovative architectures for reconfigurable devices (attenuators/shutters, low-profile and highly directional antennas) with a view to surpassing the current state of the art. The successful candidate will be responsible for modelling and optimising the number of control elements in a multi-channel antenna system, with a view to assessing the potential for minimising the energy consumption of such systems. As part of the OPALE project, a 12-month post (with the possibility of extension) is available for postdoctoral research into strategies for feeding array-type directional antennas. More specifically, the aim is to assess the feasibility of under-feeding these antennas by strategically selecting the position and weights to be applied to radiating elements in several antenna architectures developed as part of the project. This study will require the development of optimisation methods, which may draw on various state-of-the-art works and may employ strategies such as neural networks or 'physics-informed neural networks'. Beyond the radiating panel as