Dragos Dancila

Researcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy; FREIA

Mobile phone:
+46 73 469 74 32
E-mail:
Dragos.Dancila@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:
Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:
Box 524
751 20 Uppsala

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering; Solid-State Electronics

Telephone:
+46 18 471 10 78
Mobile phone:
+46 73 469 74 32
E-mail:
dragos.dancila@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:
Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
75237 UPPSALA
Postal address:
Box 65
751 03 UPPSALA

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Academic merits:
Docent in Engineering Science with Specialization in Microwave Technology
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Associate Professor in Microwave Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering. My work focuses on high-power RF and microwave systems for industrial electrification, advanced materials processing and research infrastructure. I develop solid-state RF amplifiers, adaptive microwave heating platforms and AI-enabled control methods for applications in battery manufacturing, composite curing and recycling, mining, iron ore processing and accelerator technologies.

Biography

Dr. Dragos Dancila is Associate Professor in Microwave Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Uppsala University, and researcher at FREIA Laboratory. He received his Electrical Engineering degree magna cum laude from Université catholique de Louvain in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from UCL in 2011, in collaboration with IMEC. He also holds a Complementary Master in Business Management from Solvay Business School, Brussels.

His research spans microwave engineering, RF and millimetre-wave systems, terahertz technologies, RF-MEMS, integrated antennas, biomedical sensors, and high-power RF systems. He is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications and received the Best Measurement Paper Award at EuCAP 2013. He has also been granted a WIPO patent in the field of microwave sensors for biomedical applications.

Dr. Dancila became Docent in 2018 and Associate Professor in 2019. He teaches Electronics and Analogue Electronics at Uppsala University and has been Visiting Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, since 2017.

His current research focuses on high-power RF and microwave systems for research infrastructure, industrial electrification, and advanced materials processing. At FREIA Laboratory, he works on solid-state power amplifiers, RF power generation, power combining, protection schemes, and control architectures for accelerator applications.

His recent activities also include adaptive microwave processing of materials, combining electromagnetic material characterization, sensing, modelling and AI-enabled control. Application areas include battery manufacturing, composite curing and recycling, mining and mineral processing, iron ore processing, and advanced materials treatment.

Research

The Microwave Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Uppsala University, conducts research in RF, microwave, millimetre-wave and terahertz technologies. The group has expertise in electromagnetic modelling, RF and microwave circuit design, wireless sensors, monolithic and hybrid antenna integration, antenna arrays, RF-MEMS, terahertz systems, and high-power RF systems.

The group’s research has historically addressed microwave and millimetre-wave components and systems for sensing, communication and biomedical applications. This includes work on integrated antennas, phased-array systems, terahertz technologies, RF-MEMS devices and microwave sensors. Previous research activities include projects on solid-state RF sources for radioisotope production and positron emission tomography, MEMS-based terahertz systems, 60 GHz beam-steering phased-array systems, and 5G millimetre-wave RFIC antenna-in-package technologies.

Current research activities include high-power RF and microwave systems, solid-state power amplifiers, RF power generation, power combining, protection systems and control architectures for accelerator and scientific-infrastructure applications. The group is closely connected to FREIA Laboratory, where RF systems, accelerator technology, instrumentation and large-scale experimental platforms provide an interdisciplinary environment for research and development.

A further research direction concerns electromagnetic interaction with materials, including dielectric characterization, microwave-assisted material processing, sensing, modelling and feedback control. These activities aim to improve the understanding of RF and microwave energy deposition in complex materials and to develop methods for controlled and reproducible electromagnetic processing.

The group combines theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, experimental RF and microwave measurements, system integration and applied electromagnetic design. Its activities span component-level research, laboratory prototypes and complete RF and microwave systems, with applications in scientific instrumentation, accelerator technology, sensing, materials research and advanced electromagnetic systems.

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