Catherine Dehollain
Professor Emeritus
catherine.dehollain@epfl.ch +41 21 693 69 71 http://rfic.epfl.ch
Citizenship: Swiss and French
Birth date: 20.11.1957
Fields of expertise
- RF Wireless communications of sensor nodes: Impulse radio UWB, super-regenerative receivers, 868 MHz ISM band, 2.45 GHz ISM bands, etc.- Remotely powered sensor nodes through magnetic/electro-magnetic/electro-acoustic coupling. - Remote powering and data communication of biomedical sensors: wireless cortical implant, mouse sensor, intelligent knee prosthesis. - Electrical Analog filters. - Broadband Impedance Matching Circuits. - RFID Communication through magnetic coupling (125 KHz up to 27MHz) or electro-magnetic coupling(100 MHz up to 6 GHz).
Biography
She got the Master Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1982 from EPFL. Then, she worked in Geneva up to 1990 as a Senior Design Engineer in telecommunications at the European research center of Motorola. From 1990 up to 1995, she did her PhD thesis at the Chaire des Circuits et Systemes at EPFL in the domain of impedance broadband matching circuits. Since 1995, she is responsible at EPFL for the RFIC group. She has participated to different Swiss research projects as well as European projects dedicated to data communication of sensors nodes (e.g. MuMoR, Minami European projects) as well as remote powering of sensor nodes. Her main domains of interest are telecom applications (e.g. Impulse radio Ultra-Wide Band, super-regenerative receivers, RFIDs)as well as biomedical applications. She has been the coordinator of European projects (e.g. FP6 SUPREGE, FP7 Ultrasponder)and of Swiss projects (e.g. CAPED CTI project, NEURO-IC SNF project).Publications
Infoscience publications
Research
Research
Catherine Dehollain is responsible for research projects at Swiss level (SNF projects, CTI projects) as well as at European level (FP7 projects, Marie-Curie projects). Her activities are focused on wireless data communications of sensor nodes for telecoms applications and biomedical applications. She is also interested by remote powering of sensor nodes in order to avoid the use of a micro-battery or to use a rechargeable micro-battery. Moreover, she is interested by the domain of electrical filters as well as broadband impedance matching circuits. Since 15 years, she has a large activity dedicated to super-regenerative receivers as well as RFID circuits.Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Atasoy Oguz , Azizighannad Mehrdad , Besirli Mustafa , Colli-Vignarelli Edmund James , Isa Erkan , Joly Sylvain Paul Fernand , Kapucu Kerem , Karimi Mohammad Javad , Kazanç Onur , Kilinç Enver Gürhan , Kovacs Imre , La Rosa Roberto , Liu Xiao , Mazzilli Francesco , Oguz Alp , Pekçokgüler Naci , Pillin Nicolas , Silay Kanber Mithat , Talebi Amiri Omid , Thoppay Egambaram Prakash , Türe Kerim , Vinchhi Bakul Jitendra , Vitale Wolfgang Amadeus , Wang Shenjie , Yilmaz Gürkan ,Courses
Energy Autonomous Wireless Smart Systems
The course provides in depth knowledge on how to design an energy autonomous microsystem embedding sensors with wireless transmission of information. It covers the energy generation, power management, and data processing and transmission with an emphasis on low-power and energy efficient operation.