Electronics 2020 Travel Award: Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by MDPI and Electronics. The award was granted to two outstanding young researchers working in thematic areas:

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. David Valiente is a postdoctoral fellow in the communications engineering department of Miguel Hernández University (UMH), within the area of electronics. He received degrees in telecommunications (Eng.), industrial and telecommunications (M.S.Eng.), teacher training (M.S.), and a Ph.D. in robotics, all of them with honours. He conducted research at Imperial College, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Polytechnic Institute of Engineering of Coimbra. His research work has laid the groundwork for the innovative creation of a realistic, robust, and feasible mapping and localization mobile robotic system, which can be exploited through a wide range of real applications in autonomous robots. Additionally, he is currently setting the foundations of a new and promising research line on advanced organic photovoltaic materials, focusing on obtaining high power conversion efficiency in solar cells.

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. Jaroslav Frnda graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 with the thesis topic “New Method for Video Quality Evaluation” at the same university. Since 2019, he has been working at the University of Zilina (Slovakia). His research includes multimedia services, QoS/QoE (video quality assessement methods), computer networks and next generation networks, and artificial intelligence.

This was certainly a difficult decision given the collection of high quality applications submitted for the awards. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a range of diverse and fascinating research topics and congratulate the winners for their accomplishment.

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