The Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory officially opened its doors with a grand opening ceremony on March 16, 2017. Managed by Andreas Springer and Mario Huemer, the CD Laboratory focuses on research regarding future mobile communications transceiver chips.

The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Digitally Assisted RF Transceivers for Future Mobile Communications conducts research on digital signal processing (DSP) methods to support radio frequency (RF) transceivers. The lab is funded in half by our industrial partner DMCE (Danube Mobile Communications Engineering GmbH & Co KG), an Intel subsidiary, and partly by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research & Economy, and partly by the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development. Up to 12 researchers can be continuously employed until 2023 to create new signal processing concepts and algorithms aimed at optimizing a mobile device's transmission and reception quality while minimizing its overall power consumption.

During the opening ceremony, Andreas Springer and Mario Huemer spoke about the challenges future RF transceiver chips face when it comes to 5th generation mobile standard (5G), and provided an overview about planned research activities at the lab.

During their opening remarks, Univ. Prof. Dr. Meinhard Lukas (JKU Rector), Mag. Thomas Stelzer (Deputy Governor of Upper Austria), and Dr. Markus Schutti (DMCE Linz) underscored the CD Lab's potential and praised this new center of excellence as a distinguished addition to the JKU, contributing significantly to strengthening research and business in Upper Austria! Prof. Johannes B. Huber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) drew the ceremony to close with an informative and exhilarating presentation titled “Eine gute Theorie ist das Praktischste, was es gibt!” Afterwards, invited guests enjoyed a relaxed atmosphere and refreshments during a reception that also featured musical entertainment.