2026 Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) has been established to partially support travel by one individual exhibiting high aptitude or potential for research to attend the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas & Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting to be held on July 12 – 17, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. This year’s awardee has been selected by the IEEE AP-S Member and Geographic Activities Committee (coordinated by Prof. Atif Shamim).
Martin Petek
Dr. Martin Petek (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in Electro-physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2020. From 2021 to 2025, he was a Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, where he received the Ph.D. degree cum laude. In 2023, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Since 2025, he has been a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino. In 2025, he also completed two short research visits at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Petek received the Best Electromagnetics Paper Award at the 2026 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. In 2025, he received the ECAP-TICRA Travel Grant, the IEEE AP-S Fellowship, the Erasmus+ Scholarship, and the IEEE AP-S C. J. Reddy Travel Grant for Graduate Students. In 2023, he received a Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant from COST Action SyMat. His work was featured in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in March 2025 and March 2026, and in What’s Hot in Antennas and Propagation in 2025.
Dr. Petek has contributed to four papers in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, more than 15 conference contributions, and one patent application. He has volunteered at four conferences, serving as volunteer coordinator at two of them. He is also a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. His current research interests include numerical techniques, integral equation methods, periodic structures, and higher symmetries in electromagnetics.