Dr Nima Afraz, CONNECT researcher at Trinity College Dublin, has been awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Irish Research Council (IRC).
Nima will carry out research on “Blockchain-Based solutions for 5G-and-Beyond Network Sharing” with Dr Marco Ruffini in Trinity College Dublin.
Nima successfully defended his PhD thesis, ‘Techno-economics of Optical Access Network Sharing‘, earlier this year.
The IRC fellowships. announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, aim to ‘support a pipeline of research talent which will be at the forefront of addressing the many challenges and opportunities we face.’
They are part of a €21 million investment in early career researchers across all academic disciplines.