André Santiago, MSc student from Instituto Superior Técnico, was awarded the 1st prize in the MSc category of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2013 with the thesis developed at Instituto de Telecomunicações “Broadband UHF RFID Passive Tag Antenna for Near-Body Operation”, supervised by IT researchers Carlos Fernandes and Jorge Costa.
The Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge is an idea contest promoted by Fraunhofer AICOS which aims to motivate and reward research of practical utility, through the attribution of a scientific prize to MSc/PhD Students and Researchers from Portuguese Universities in the areas of ICT, Multimedia and other related Sciences.