About us

ECIT was established in 2003 to commercialise world-level expertise in a variety of enabling digital communications technologies at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast.

Its four research clusters cover areas such as broadband wireless communications, electronic data security, image and speech processing, telecommunications software and antenna design for mobile communications.

The institute’s 14,000m2 headquarters building houses state-of-the-art laboratories, offices and one of the largest RF (microwave and millimetre wave) anechoic chambers in Ireland. It is staffed by 120 academics, senior research staff, post-doctoral fellows, research students and administrators. Among them are 40 highly qualified industrial and academic researchers recruited from around the globe. In addition, TDK - the Japanese electronics company - has located a six person R&D unit in the new building.

Located on a flagship site in the Northern Ireland Science Park on Belfast’s waterfront, ECIT has received funding from the European Union, Invest Northern Ireland and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland.