ARENAS ALVAREZ Raquel

PhD Student at Sorbonne Université and Thales Research and Technology

  • 4 place Jussieu
    75005 , Paris

Expertises

I earned my degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain, in July 2022. I continued my studies at the same university, completing a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering in July 2024.

During my professional experience, I completed an internship at VLC Photonics, part of the Hitachi Group, where I specialized in advanced photonic assembly techniques. Later, I worked at DAS Photonics, where I contributed to the development of advanced metasurfaces for telecommunications through additive manufacturing.

I am currently pursuing a three-year PhD under the Marie Curie fellowship as part of the GENIUS project, focusing on "Wide-angle glide-symmetric absorbers for aircraft communications."  My research will be conducted at Thales TRT, with a nine-month secondment at Sorbonne University and six-month secondment at KTH. The project is supervised by Erika Vandelle and Tran Quang Khai Nguyen at Thales, by Guido Valerio and Julien Sarrazin at Sorbonne, and by Oscar Quevedo-Teruel at KTH.