Sjoerd van der Heide

Sjoerd van der Heide (Student Member, IEEE) was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, in 1992. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (cum laude) degrees in electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the High-Capacity Optical Transmission Laboratory, Electro-Optical Communications Group, at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include space-division multiplexing and digital signal processing. He was the recipient of a Student Paper Award at ECOC 2018, a Best Paper Award at OECC 2019, and a Student Paper Award at ECOC 2020.