Editorial Team

Said Zouhdi

Paris-Sud University, France
Said Zouhdi received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Enfgineering from Pierre et Marie Curie University, France, in 1994 and the Habilitation degree in Electrical Engineering from Paris-Sud University in 2003. From September 1995 to August 2007, he was an Associate Professor at Pierre et Marie Curie University. In September 2007, he joined Paris-Sud University as a Professor and Head of International Affairs at Polytech Paris-Sud. His research interests include electromagnetic wave interaction with structures and antennas, complex materials such as metamaterials, chiral, bianisotropic and PBG materials, and optimization methods for various designs. He has published over 150 journal papers, book chapters, and conference articles. He is the Founding editor-in-chief of the journal Advanced Electromagnetics, he is the founding and general chair of the international conferences META and AES, he edited 2 books and several special issues in journals. Dr. Zouhdi is a Fellow of The Electromagnetics Academy and IEEE Senior Member.

Laurent Daniel

CentraleSupelec, France
Laurent Daniel is a Professor at CentraleSupelec, France. He obtained his PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, in 2003, and is Habilitation thesis form Univ Paris-Sud in 2011. He joined the Department of Physics at Univ Paris-Sud in 2004 and conducted his research at the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Paris. From 2011 to 2014, he moved to the School of Materials at the University of Manchester, UK, as an invited researcher. He is now director of the Chair for Automotive Mechatronics created in cooperation between CentraleSupelec, Esigelec and Faurecia. The Chair is hosted by the Group of Electrical Engineering - Paris (GeePs) at CentraleSupelec. Laurent Daniel’s research interests cover the characterisation and modelling of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric behaviour for the design of electromagnetic devices. He is particularly involved in the development of multiscale methods to analyse thermo-electro-magneto-mechanical coupling effects in heterogeneous materials, and in the implementation of coupled constitutive laws for the design of smart materials applications.

Bratin Ghosh

Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, India
Bratin Ghosh was born in Kolkata, India in 1968. He received his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 1990 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Master of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering with specialization in Microwave Engineering in 1994 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetics in 2002 from the University of Manitoba, Canada. Thereafter, he completed his postdoctoral from the Royal Military College of Canada. He is currently Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a TPC member and an invited / keynote speaker and chaired sessions in many national and international conferences and seminars. He is also in the review and editorial boards of many international journals. He has been the recipient of many federal project grants in addition to research grants from the industry on the design of efficient antennas and guided systems. He has also organized many short term lectures and workshops in the field of applied electromagnetics that have been well attended by participants from both the academia and industry. He had been the recipient of the National Talent Search Scholarship, the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship and is Senior Member, IEEE. He has also been the recipient of many national awards, travel grants and best student paper awards. His areas of research interest are full-wave Green’s function technique for the analysis of cylindrical and spherical multilayer structures, singularity removal techniques, efficient evaluation of Sommerfeld integral tails and leaky and creeping waves in cylindrical structures. He is also actively involved in the design and analysis of efficient horn antenna feeds, metamaterials, dielectric resonator antennas, antenna miniaturization and numerical techniques. He has also edited a monograph on the full-wave analysis of guided wave structures and components.

Christos Argyropoulos

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Christos Argyropoulos is an Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, USA. He received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2006). He holds a M.Sc. degree in Communication Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK (2007) and a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Antennas and Electromagnetics Group of the Queen Mary, University of London, UK (2011). After completion of his PhD studies, he accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship position in the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Next (2013), he worked for one year as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics at Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, USA. He has published over 135 technical papers in highly ranked journals and refereed conference proceedings, including 5 book chapters. He has received several research and travel awards, such as Junior Researcher Award of the 2013 Raj Mittra Travel Grant, EPSRC Research Scholarship, Royal Academy of Engineering international travel grant and twice the Marie Curie Actions Grant to attend the European School of Antennas. He organized special sessions about nonlinear metamaterials at META 15 and META 16. He has given several invited talks and seminars to different conferences and universities. He served as Student Paper Competition co-chair and TPC member at IEEE APS 2016 and as editor at the EPJ Applied Metamaterials journal. His research interests are linear and nonlinear metamaterials, metasurfaces and nanophotonic devices.

Xavier Begaud

Télécom ParisTech, France

Xavier Begaud was born on December 11, 1968 in Chateaudun, France. He received a M.S. degree in optics, optoelectronics and microwaves, from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) in 1992. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rennes in 1996 and the habitation degree from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) in 2007. He joined the Télécom ParisTech (formerly Ecole Nationale des Telecommunications) in 1998, where he is presently professor at communications and electronics Department. He works with the Radiofrequency and Microwave Group of CNRS, the French National Scientific Research Center. His research topics include theory, conception, modeling, and characterization of wideband, bipolarized and 3D antennas with special emphasis on numerical methods. Currently, research activities include design of metamaterials, channel sounding, and mutual coupling analysis in the framework of ultra-wideband and software radio. He has published over 120 journal papers, patents, book chapters, and conference articles. He has organized two international conferences as the general chairman and edited 1 book.

Floran Martin

Aalto University, Finland

Floran Martin was born on August 12, 1985 in Ancenis, France. He received his engineer diploma of electrical engineering from Polytech’Nantes and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Nantes in 2009. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Nantes in 2013. He joined the department of electrical engineering and automation in Aalto University in 2014 where he works as a researcher in the group of computational electromechanics. His research topics include not only thermo-magneto-mechanical constitutive model of magnetic materials, but also the model and optimization of electrical devices such as high speed synchronous machine and reluctance machines.

Di Bao

Southeast University, China

Di Bao is an Associate Professor in School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University (SEU), China. She received the BSc and MSc degree from SEU, and the PhD degree from Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK. She has published over 20 journal papers, book chapters, and conference articles. Her research interests include metamaterials, spoof surface plasmons and terahertz metasurface.

Pai-Yen Chen

Wayne State University, United States

Pai-Yen Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Wayne State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. He was a Research Scientist at the Intellectual Ventures' Metamaterial Commercialization Center (2013-2014), and a Research Staff in the National Nano Device Laboratory in Taiwan (2006-2009). He has published approximately 70 peer-review papers, 60 conference proceedings, 1 book, 6 book chapters, and 9 US patents, including several journal coverages. He has served as TPC members and session chairs for several international symposia and conferences. He has received several national awards, federal fellowships, travel grants, and best student papers in major electromagnetics conferences. He has been involved in multidisciplinary research on applied electromagnetics, high-frequency electronics, plasmonics and nanophotonics, as well as their biometric and sensing applications.

Mohamed Farhat

QEERI-HBKU, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Mohamed Farhat received his Ph.D. in Optics and Electromagnetism from Aix-Marseille University in 2010, where he obtained as well his Master degree in Theoretical Physics in 2006. He has been since postdoctoral fellow at University of Texas at Austin, University of Jena and KAUST. He has authored over 100 publications, including 45 journal papers, 4 book chapters, two international patents, and 55 conference papers, with over 1200 citations (h-index 20). He has also organized many special sessions at the conferences Meta'13, Meta'14 and Meta'15, and is active reviewer for many international journals (https://sites.google.com/site/mohameddfarhat/home).

Hulusi Açıkgöz

KTO Karatay University, Turkey
Hulusi Açıkgöz received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Applied Physics from Paris-Est Marne La Vallée University, France in 2003 and 2005, respectively. His Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering is obtained from Pierre et Marie Curie University, France, in 2008. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Électronique et Électromagnétisme (L2E), France, in 2010. In 2015, he spent a sabbatical year at Penn State University, USA, within the Electromagnetic Communication Lab, directed by Prof. Raj Mittra. Since 2011, he is working at KTO Karatay University, Turkey as an assistant professor in the electrical and electronics department. His main research interests include computational electromagnetics, antennas modelling and analysis, RFID antennas, graphene antennas, statistical electromagnetics, development of antennas for microwave cancer ablation, inverse problems, neural networks. Dr. Acikgoz’s is a member of IEEE and steering committee member of URSI Turkey. He organized and served as the general chairman of URSI Turkey national congress, in 2018.

Nathan Ida

University of Akron, United States

Mohd Faizal Jamlos

Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia

Sébastien Lalléchère

Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, France

Howard Lee

Baylor University and TexasA&M, United States

Jensen Li

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Sima Noghanian

University of North Dakota, USA
Sima Noghanian received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, she was a researcher at YottaYotta Corporation, Edmonton, Canada. She received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in 2002, which she took at the University of Waterloo. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, during 2002-2003. From 2003 to 2008, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Dakota, USA. In 2018 she was a visiting professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University, USA. Her research interests include antenna design and modeling, wearable and implanted antennas, 3D printed antennas, wireless power transfer, microwave imaging, and wireless channel modeling. She has 52 peer reviewed journal publications, 135 conference publications, one patent, one book and three book chapters. Dr. Noghanian is a senior member of IEEE. She is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, a member of International Union of Radio Science URSI Commission B, and a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society. She currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal, and AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications.

Eva Rajo-Iglesias

University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Eva Rajo-Iglesias was born in Monforte de Lemos (Spain) in 1972. She received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, in 2002. Since 2008 she is an Associate Professor with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University Carlos III of Madrid and she is also an Affiliate Professor with the Antenna Group, Signals and Systems Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden since 2009. Her main research interests include microstrip patch antennas and arrays, metamaterials and periodic structures, artificial soft/hard surfaces, gap waveguide technology, MIMO system antennas and optimization methods applied to electromagnetism. She has (co)authored more than 50 contributions in international journals and more than 100 in international conferences. Dr. Rajo-Iglesias was a recipient of the 2007 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference Best Paper Award and the “Best Poster Award in the field of Metamaterial Applications in Antennas” at Metamaterials 2009. She currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine since 2009 and for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters since 2011.

Ozlem Ozgun

Hacettepe University, Turkey
Ozlem Ozgun received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and her Ph.D. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 2007, all in electrical and electronics engineering. She worked at the Electromagnetic Communication Lab, Penn State University, USA as a postdoctoral researcher during 2007-2008. Currently, she is an associate professor in the electrical and electronics engineering department of Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Dr. Ozgun's research interests include computational electromagnetics, finite element method, domain decomposition methods, transformation electromagnetics/optics, electromagnetic scattering, stochastic electromagnetic problems and optimization techniques. She has published over 100 journal papers, book chapters, and conference articles. Dr. Ozgun received METU Ph.D. best thesis award in 2007, and the award for excellence in electromagnetics bestowed by Prof. Leopold B. Felsen Fund in 2009. She is a senior member of IEEE, and the secretary of the steering committee of URSI Turkey.

Adel Razek

GeePs-CNRS, France
Adel Razek was born in Cairo, Egypt. He received the Dip. Eng and M.Sc. Eng. degrees from Cairo University, in 1968 and 1971, respectively. Since 1986, he has been a Research Director at the CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. Joining the INPG Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1971, he became Docteur d’Etat ès Sciences Physiques in 1976. In 1977, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at INPG. He moved to the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique de Paris associated to CNRS, SUPELEC and the University of Paris, as a Research Scientist at CNRS in 1978, Senior Research Scientist in 1981, Research Director in 1986, and Senior Research Director in 1997. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 scientific papers. His current primary research concerns computational electromagnetics (EMC, NDT, CAD) and design of electrical drives and actuators. Dr. Razek is IEEE Life Fellow, IET Fellow, and a Membre Émérite of the Société des Ingénieurs Électriciens (SEE), France. He has received several awards for his research including the 2017 IEEE Nikola Tesla Award and the André Blondel medal in 1985 for his research work.

Junsuk Rho

POSTECH, Republic of Korea
Junsuk Rho is currently an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea. Before joining POSTECH, He received a degree his B.S. (2007) and M.S. (2008) in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea and the University of Illinois, Uebana-Champaign, respectively. After getting Ph.D. (2013) in Mechanical Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, he had worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Ugo Fano Fellow in Nanoscience and Technology Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on developing novel nanophotonic materials and devices based on fundamental physics and experimental studies of deep sub-wavelength light-matter interaction. Dr. Rho has published approximately 10 high impact peer-reviewed journal papers including Science, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications. He has received honorable awards including U.S. DOE Argonne Named Fellowship (2013-2014), Samsung Scholarship (2008-2013), the Optical Society of America (OSA) Milton/Chang Award, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Scholarship (2011 & 2012), Materials Research Society (MRS) student award (2012) and DOE Argonne Named Fellowship (2013).

Ari Sihvola

Aalto University, Finland
Ari Sihvola was born on October 6, 1957, in Valkeala, Finland. He received the engineer in 1981, Licentiate of Technology in 1984, and Doctor of Technology degrees in 1987, all in Electrical Engineering, from the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Finland, in 1981, 1984, and 1987, respectively. In addition to working with HUT and the Academy of Finland, he was a Visiting Engineer with the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1985–1986. In 1990–1991, he was a Visiting Scientist with The Pennsylvania State University, State College. In 1996, he was a Visiting Scientist with Lund University, Sweden. During 2000–2001 he was a Visiting Professor with the Electromagnetics and Acoustics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. He is a Professor of electromagnetics at Aalto Univeristy with interest in electromagnetic theory, complex media, materials modeling, remote sensing, and radar applications. He is Chairman of the Finnish National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He is Fellow IEEE. He received a five-year Finnish Academy Professor appointment 2005-2010.

Mohamed Swillam

American university in Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Swillam received his PhD. from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2008. After graduation he worked as post doctoral fellow in the same group. In October 2009, he joined the photonic group and the institute of optical sciences at the University of Toronto where he works as a research fellow. In September 2011, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, the American university in Cairo (AUC). His research interests include design optimization and fabrication of active and passive nanophotonic and plasmonic devices and systems, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, nano-antenna, metamaterials, and solar cells. He authored more than 135 technical papers in highly ranked journals and conferences. Dr. Swillam served as a guest editor for the J. of Optical and Quantum Electronics and J. Applied Physics A. He is also member of the board of several physics and photonics journals and conferences including the journal Review of Applied Physics, .J of Photonics and Optoelectronics, J. of Bio-Inspired Nanotechnology, META conference, NUSOD, ICMAP and SOPO. He is a senior member of the IEEE Photonic society since 2010. He is the founder and the advisor of the optical society of America and SPIE chapters at the AUC and the vice president of the Egyptian Unit. Dr. Swillam received various awards and fellowships including the State Award for advanced technology in 2013 and Misr -Elkhair best publication award in science in 2012, Ontario ministry of research (MRI) fellowship in 2011, NSERC post doctoral fellowship 2009, and the Dean's graduate student award of knowledge translation and innovation from McMaster University in 2009. He was also the recipient of best student paper award from IEEE/LEOS Ottawa section for Photonics North 2007 and from ACES 2009.

Wen Xuan Tang

Southeast University - Nanjing, China
Wen Xuan Tang received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics from the Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K., in 2012. In 2012, she joined the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. She is currently an Associate Professor in State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves at Southeast University. She has authored / co-authored over 30 journal articles, one book and two book chapters on metamaterials and their applications, and has been invited to give presentations at several international conferences. She is currently a guest editor of the journal of EPJ Applied Metamaterials (EPJ AM). She has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, and Optics Express etc. Her current research interests include metamaterials and their applications, and microwave devices and antennas.

Constantinos Valagiannopoulos

Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Constantinos Valagiannopoulos (IEEE and OSA Senior Member) is an Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, Department of Physics. He received the Dipl.Eng. (Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetic Theory in 2009, both from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Between 2010 and 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Finland (Sergei Tretyakov’s group) and during the academic year 2014–2015, he was with the Laboratory of Metamaterials and Plasmonics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (Andrea Alu’s group). His research pertains to the inverse design of photonic devices with use of artificial materials (metamaterials) and 2D media. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 works in international refereed scientific journals and presented numerous reports in international scientific conferences. Dr. Valagiannopoulos received the inaugural 2015 JOPT Research Excellence Award for his work: “Perfect absorption in graphene multilayers”. He has also won the International Chorafas Prize for the Best 2008 Doctoral Thesis, and the Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Grant for 2012-2015.

Kuang Zhang

Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Kuang Zhang is an Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He earned his B.S. at department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005, and M.S. at department of Electrical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2007. He received the Ph. D. degree at department of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology in 2011. He joined the Department of Microwave Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology in 2011. He was the recipient of Progress Prize in Scientific and Collective Technology of Heilongjiang Province, China. He has authored / co-authored over 40 journal articles and one book chapter, and has been invited to give invited presentations at several international conferences. He is currently a member of editorial board of the Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). His research revolves around theories and applications of metamaterials in microwave region. His current interests are on metasurfaces, transformation optics and vertex beams, supported by National Science Foundation of China.

Yan Zhao

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Yan Zhao received the BSc degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, the MSc degree from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, and the PhD degree from Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He has published over 100 technical papers in highly ranked journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has extensive experience in computational electromagnetics, notably in the area of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method for metamaterials. He also has experience in the ray tracing technique, the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) and their applications in antenna engineering and radio propagation. Dr. Zhao is currently the Chair of the IEEE Thailand Section Joint MTT/APS Chapter. He is also a founding member of the Innovative Electromagnetic Academic of Thailand (iEMAT), and the Managing Editor of Engineering Journal (Eng. J.). Dr. Zhao is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as a regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Progress in Electromagnetics Research, and Optics Express etc.

Linjie Zhou

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Linjie Zhou received his B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University in 2003. He received his Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis. Currently he is a professor in the State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include silicon photonics, plasmonic devices and optical integration. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers with over 1200 citations, and has given more than 20 invited talks in international conferences. He has organized many sessions at multiple international and domestic conferences. He was elected as the “Yangtse Rive Young Scholar” by the Minister of Education of China in 2016. He was granted the “Newton Advanced Fellowship” in 2016 and “National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars” in 2014. He also got the SMC Excellent Young Faculty Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014 and 2010.