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Details for Professor Joe McGeehan
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Joe McGeehan |
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
| Department | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | C.B.E., DEng, Ph.D.(Liv.), B.Eng., F.R.Eng., CEng, FIET, F.R.S.A. |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) |
| Keywords | wireless communications wireless LANs mobile phones, 3G, 4G, WiMAX, LTE, UWB MIMO smart antennas modulation and coding networks radiowave propagation |
| Areas of expertise | I am an expert in mobile communications and have pioneered many techniques both experimental and theoretical in propagation modelling and network coverage, linear modulation techniques, linearised RF power amplifiers, WCDMA for 3G, SMART/MIMO antennas and WLANs. Personally interested in propagation modelling, base-band signal processing and RF/microwave technologies and together with colleagues am very interested in the design of communication systems. I am interested in applying wireless communication technologies to many application areas including: Home Networks, Smart Grid and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). I lead the World-wide University Network (WUN) for the Wireless Communications Exemplar and the University of Bristol Communications Theme. I am Director of the Centre for Communications Research at the University of Bristol. I am mentor to various start-up companies in ICT. |
| Media experience | Numerous national and international TV and Radio interviews (e.g. BBC and ITV appearing on programmes such as ‘Points West’, ‘PM’ and ‘Today’; ABC TV (Australia), etc.). I also regularly give interviews to national and international technical journals, newspapers and general interest journals. High-profile keynote lectures such as the IET ‘Lord Nelson of Stafford Lecture’ 2003 (Engineering Management Section) and the Brunel 200 lecture. |