Robin Wydaeghe

drs. ir. Engineering Physics

Cool things I’ve done!

The OUTREACH Initiative

OUTREACH Initiative logo

In the summer of 2024, I launched the OUTREACH initiative. In short, it aims to obtain sensitive data from private companies in order to do better simulations, by gathering support among experts in the field.

Take a look at the website I built for it: www.outreachinitiative.info!

TEDxKULeuven

Robin at TEDxKULeuven

February 2025 · Radiating the Audience with a 5G Base Station

Visiting scientist

IT’IS Foundation logo

I received a FWO grant to be a visiting research scientist at the IT'IS Foundation and Zurich MedTech with prof. Niels Kuster (ETH Zürich, IEEE Fellow).

Awards

BioEM student competition award photograph

At BioEM 2022 and 2024, I received prizes in the student competition for my work. BioEM is the premier conference on bioelectromagnetics.

Around the world

It's custom in our field to rely on conferences and meetings to share the rapid advances in research. As a result, I've been very fortunate to travel around the world to present my work. Here are some of these places with pictures!

BioEM: Ghent (Belgium), Nagoya (Japan), Oxford (UK), Crete (Greece), Rennes (France).
EuCAP: Glasgow (Scotland), Stockholm (Sweden).
COST Interact: Poznan (Poland), Dublin (Ireland).
GOLIAT: Barcelona (Spain), Rome (Italy).
ETAIN: Utrecht (The Netherlands).
GSMA: Brussels (Belgium).

Achievements & hobbies

2026

Avid musician

Music is a very big part of my life. I have devoted 16 years of my life to learning the oboe, piano and composition. Playing oboe in 4 orchestras has taught me valuable soft skills and performing under pressure. On average I spend 12 hours/week on lessons, repetitions, practicing, ... It gives me tremendous amounts of energy and joy.

2015

Finalist in Samsung Innovation Challenge

The Samsung Innovation Challenge is a competition to invent a tool facilitating the learning of languages through technology for high-school students. Together with some friends, we created NLMiner: a Minecraft-inspired game that quizzes students on languages, for which I coded a prototype. We went through 4 selection rounds, explained our idea to large audiences, received professional coaching on presenting and designing. Although we didn't win the competition, our group of 3 received 2300€ worth of prize.

2012 and 2013

Finalist in national youth team chess

I was in a chess club for many years and participated in the national Belgian youth inter-scholar team chess competition. We placed 9th twice, when I was 13 and 14 years old. It was a very fun experience.