27 May 2026 | Mikrocentrum Veldhoven
27 May 2026
Mikrocentrum Veldhoven
PhD pitches
The Benelux RF&IC Conference supports our research talents by offering them the opportunity to engage with the RF and IC design community about their work. All PhD student from the region are invited to give a poster presentation on the exhibition floor. In addition, for each of the three main topics (RF, analog/mixed signal and digital), we organize a session featuring pitches by selected PhD students. The best pitch in each track receives 1,000 euros.
RF selection committee
Kostas Doris (NXP/TU Delft)
Ulf Johannsen (TUE)
Nils Pohl (Ruhr University)
Patrick Reynaert (KU Leuven)
Frank van Vliet (TNO/UT)
Award sponsor
Analog & mixed-signal selection committee
Kofi Makinwa (TU Delft)
Bram Nauta (UT)
Matthias Rose (NXP)
Daniel Schinkel (MPS Axign)
Valentijn De Smedt (KU Leuven)
Digital selection committee
Martin Andraud (UCLouvain)
Charlotte Frenkel (TU Delft)
Manil Dev Gomony (TUE)
Marian Verhelst (KU Leuven)
Award sponsors
Participation guidelines
- Your work can be a journal paper, conference paper, workshop talk that you’ve presented or had published during 2025. Unpublished work can be presented as well.
- You need to submit a 1-page document that summarizes your work, including a brief abstract, some graphs or pictures to clarify. Make sure to highlight the novelty and which problems your work aims to solve. Use the submission form below.
- Anything related to the design, modeling or measurement of circuits, devices, packages and other components like antennas is more than welcome.
- All contributing students can attend the Benelux RF&IC Conference free of charge and are expected to provide a poster of their work, to be presented in person on the exhibition floor.
- Selected students are expected to present their work during an 8-minute pitch as part of the conference program.
- At the end of the conference, the best pitch will be awarded a prize of 1,000 euros.
- The deadline for submission is 30 March 2026.