PhD Committee

The ECE PhD Committee is responsible for ensuring the quality and development of the department's PhD degree programme in close collaboration with the Graduate School of Technical Sciences (GSTS).

The Committee has, among other things, the following tasks:

  • Ensure the quality of the supervision
  • Ensure the implementation of six-monthly evaluations
  • Evaluation of PhD applications
  • Coordination of qualification exams
  • Coordination of PhD teaching hours
  • Planning and approval of PhD courses

The committee meets four times a year.

Members

The PhD Committee consists of 6 VIP staff members from the department, 7 PhD student representatives and 4 alternates. The committee is headed by a chair and has a secretary affiliated to handle the administrative tasks of the committee.

VIP staff members

Alexander Kies

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electrical Energy Technology

Christian Fischer Pedersen

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Signal Processing and Machine learning

Emilia Mendes

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems - Edison

Preben Kidmose

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Biomedical Engineering

Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Communication, Control and Automation

Stefan Hallerstede

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems

PhD student representatives

Asbjørn Cortnum Jørgensen

Research Fellow Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Biomedical Engineering

Gresha Srimani Samarakkody

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Biomedical Engineering

Jacopo Comoglio

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jawad Hasan

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Biomedical Engineering

Kiana Ghassabi

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Communication, Control and Automation

Martin Michaelsen

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Signal Processing and Machine learning

Mikkel Ejsing Skov Petersen

PhD Student Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Software Engineering & Computing systems

Alternates

Daniel Enrique Lucani Rötter

Deputy Head of department for talent development and external fu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Henrik Karstoft

Professor (Docent) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Signal Processing and Machine learning

Peter Johansen

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Biomedical Engineering

Qi Zhang

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Communication, Control and Automation

Contact

Chair

Stefan Hallerstede

Associate Professor

Secretary

Freia Martensen

Secretariat Staff Member

Meetings in 2026

  • 12 Marts @ 13.30-15.00
  • 19 Maj @ 12.30-13.15 (without PhD student representatives)
  • 28 Maj @ 9.00-9.45 (with PhD student representatives)
  • 1 September @ 10.00-11.30
  • 1 December @ 10.00-11.30