Henk Wymeersch, Full Professor in Communication Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been recognized on this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list. The list highlights researchers whose publications rank among the most cited in their fields.
Clarivate annually compiles the Highly Cited Researchers list, which identifies and celebrates researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields. This year’s list contains 7,131 Highly Cited Researcher awards in total, and three of them are from Chalmers. Henk Wymeersch is new to the list, along with Johan Bengtsson-Palme and Jens Nielsen, who have been recognised on the list in previous years.
Wymeersch leads the area of Radio Localization and Sensing and is affiliated with the FORCE Research Center on optical communication. His research focuses on algorithm design and system analysis for localization and sensing for 5G and 6G communication systems.
Congratulations, Henk, on this achievement. What does this recognition mean to you?
“Being listed as a Highly Cited Researcher is a clear acknowledgment that the work my collaborators and I have pursued over many years is having real impact in the scientific community. It reflects the collective effort of my team at E2, our industrial and academic partners, and the broader community working toward next-generation wireless systems. For me, this recognition is less about personal achievement and more about validation that the problems in radio localization and sensing we focus on are relevant and influential.”
What motivates you in your research?
“I am motivated by how advances in communication systems continually open new possibilities for localization and sensing. The ability of communication systems to sense is central to how we connect the physical and digital worlds, and there is still enormous room to push the boundaries of what these systems can do. The interplay between modeling, algorithms, and real-world constraints keeps the research intellectually stimulating. Equally important is the opportunity to support my large team of PhD students and postdocs. Seeing them grow, contribute, and shape the field provides continuous motivation.”
What are you focusing on right now?
“My current work concentrates on a range of challenges in integrated sensing and communication, including handling hardware impairments, scaling systems to distributed architectures, addressing security and privacy threats, automatically learning digital twins of the environment, and integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial components. Methodologically, I see a clear shift toward machine learning, particularly in combination with classical model-based approaches, to achieve more robust and adaptive integrated sensing and communication systems.”
- Full Professor, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks, Electrical Engineering