Roles

The AP-S TC on Metamaterials provides leadership and high-level expertise to the AP-S community on all aspects of electromagnetic materials and devices, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and metastructures. This includes both theoretical and practical aspects, such as analytical and numerical models, innovative design strategies and fabrication techniques, and advanced approaches for implementing reconfigurable and time-varying material and surface properties.

The TC emphasizes fostering the development of electromagnetic materials and metastructures that drive innovation in next-generation technologies, including wireless communication, radar systems, wearable and IoT devices, adaptive and intelligent systems, and biomedical applications. By stimulating connections between fundamental research and practical challenges, the TC helps shape advancements that influence emerging markets and inspire innovative industrial developments.

In addition to its technical leadership, the TC actively promotes, develops, and coordinates scientific, dissemination, and educational activities in related areas. These efforts aim to share and promote technical knowledge across the community while encouraging students and young researchers to explore and contribute to this dynamic field.

Scope

The TC’s scopes span a wide range of scientific and engineering topics. Key areas include, but are not limited to, the use of metastructures in controlling antenna radiation and scattering, wave propagation manipulation in both free-space and guided environments, hardware-level signal processing, and applications in sensing and detection, imaging, computing, and bioelectromagnetics.

1. Design and characterization of electromagnetic materials, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and metastructures for advanced electromagnetic applications.
2. Reconfigurable and time-varying metastructures for adaptive and intelligent electromagnetic systems.
3. Control of antenna radiation and scattering for enhanced performance in communication and sensing systems.
4. Manipulation and shaping of electromagnetic waves in free-space and guided environments.
5. Signal processing at the hardware level for low-latency electromagnetic systems.
6. Sensing and biomedical applications.
7. Industrial applications of metastructures for enhanced performance in wireless systems, radar technologies, and intelligent devices.
8. Energy harvesting and wireless power transfer.
9. Electromagnetic camouflage and signature.

Members – TC on Metamaterials

Prof. Alessio Monti

_Chair

Prof. Enrica Martini

_Vice-Chair

Dr. Elham Baladi

Prof. Filiberto Bilotti

Dr. Can Ding

Prof. Anthony Grbic

Prof. Francesco Monticone

Dr. Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri

Dr. Stefano Vellucci

Prof. Hiroki Wakatsuchi

Prof. Douglas Werner

Biographies

Alessio Monti was born in Rome, Italy. He received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering (summa cum laude), the M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D degree in biomedical electronics, electromagnetics and telecommunications engineering from ROMA TRE University, Rome, Italy, in 2008, 2010 and 2015, respectively.

He was with Niccolò Cusano University in Rome, Italy, where he served as both an Assistant and Associate Professor until 2021. Since November 2021, he has been with ROMA TRE University, where he holds the position of Associate Professor in Electromagnetic Field Theory within the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering.

His research interests include varied theoretical and application-oriented aspects of metamaterials and metasurfaces at microwave and optical frequencies, the design of functionalized covers and invisibility devices for antennas and antenna arrays and the electromagnetic modelling of micro- and nano-structured artificial surfaces. His research activities resulted in 130+ papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Prof. Monti has been also involved as leader or senior researcher in the activities of 30+ research projects funded either by national and international bodies or by private companies.

Prof. Monti has been actively serving the scientific community in relevant roles, engaging in the activities of international societies, journal editorial boards, and the organization of scientific events. Among other positions, he has been serving as the inaugural Chair of the IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Metamaterials since 2025. In addition, he has been Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation since 2024, after previously serving as Associate Editor from 2018 to 2023. He is also member of the secretarial office of the International Association METAMORPHOSE VI, and of the Editorial Board of the journal EPJ Applied Metamaterials (2016-now). In 2019, he has been appointed as General Chair of the International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials and he has been serving as Chair of the Steering Committee of the same Congress series since 2017. He has been also member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) and Track Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (2016-2025) and of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics-Metamaterials (2014-2016) and has been guest-editor of five journal special issues focused on metamaterials and nanophotonics. He has also been serving as a Technical Reviewer of many high-level international journals related to electromagnetic field theory, metamaterials and nanophotonics and he been selected as Top Reviewer by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation from 2014 to 2019.

Prof. Monti has been the recipient of several national and international awards and recognitions, including the URSI (2024) and IEEE (2019) Senior Grade, the URSI Young Scientist Award (2019), the outstanding Associate Editor Award of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (for five consecutive years, from 2019 to 2023), the Finmeccanica Group Innovation Award for young people (2015), the 2nd place award at the student paper competition of the Metamaterials’ conference (2012), and has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium (2012).

Enrica Martini was born in Spilimbergo (PN), Italy, in 1973. She received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in informatics and telecommunications from the University of Florence and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, in 2002, under joint supervision.

From 1998 to 1999, she was with the University of Florence under a one-year research grant from Alenia Aerospazio Company, Rome, Italy. In 2002, she was appointed as a Research Associate at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy. In 2005, she received the Hans Christian Ørsted Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, and she was with the Electromagnetic Systems Section, Ørsted•DTU Department, until 2007. From 2007 to 2017, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Siena. In 2012, she co-founded the startup Wave Up Srl, Siena, of which she was the CEO from 2016 to 2018. From 2019 to 2021, she was an Assistant Professor with the University of Siena, where she is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics. She coordinated tasks of various research projects funded by national and international governmental institutions, as well as industries. Her research interests include metasurfaces and metamaterial characterization, metasurface-based antennas and microwave devices, electromagnetic scattering, antenna measurements, and tropospheric propagation.

Dr. Martini was a co-recipient of the 2016 Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award, the Best Paper Award in Antenna Design and Applications at the 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in 2017, the Best Poster Award at the Metamaterials Congress in 2019, and the Best Paper Award in Electromagnetics at the 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation in 2021.

Elham Baladi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering – telecommunications from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics and microwaves from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in January 2019. She developed a novel class of resonant metasurfaces during her Ph.D. degree and investigated their applications for shielding, imaging, and selective transmission.

Dr. Baladi was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, from February 2019 to February 2021, where she conducted research on the modeling and development of reconfigurable antenna arrays for space applications. She was an Antenna and RF Filter Design Engineer with Syntronic Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, from February 2021 to August 2022, where she worked on the development of RF cavity filters, duplexers, and multi-band antennas for 5G, IoT, and wireless communication systems. Dr. Baladi joined the department of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, as an Assistant Professor in September 2022. Her research interests include the development of novel multi-band multi-beam antenna arrays, metasurfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, microwave sensors, and radar imaging solutions.

Dr. Baladi was the recipient of the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment scholarship, the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures scholarship, and the IEEE AP-S Doctoral Research Award. She has been a lecturer at York University (Winter 2020) and the University of Alberta (Winter 2017) and serves as a reviewer for multiple IEEE and OSA journals. She currently serves as the chair of the IEEE Antenna & Propagation Section and the IEEE Women in Engineering in Montreal and is a member of the IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Metamaterials. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University.

Filiberto Bilotti received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from ROMA TRE University, Rome, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2014, he serves as a Full Professor of electromagnetic field theory and the Director of the Antennas and Metamaterials Research Laboratory (since 2012) at the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering (since 2021) at ROMA TRE University. His main research interests include the analysis and design of artificial electromagnetic materials, metamaterials, and metasurfaces, including their applications at both microwave and optical frequencies. In the last 10 years, his main research interests include the development of intelligent nodes for Smart Electromagnetic Environments; the modeling, design, implementation, and application of reconfigurable intelligent metasurfaces; the modeling and applications of (space and) time-varying metasurfaces; the topological-based design of antennas supporting structured field; the analysis and design of cloaking metasurfaces for antenna systems; the concept of meta-gratings and related applications in optics and at microwaves; the modeling and applications of optical metasurfaces. The research activities developed in the last 20 years has resulted in more than 700 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and three patents.

Prof. Bilotti was the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions, including the elevation to the IEEE Fellow in 2017, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Chen-To-Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2023, the Outstanding Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation in 2016 and 2023, the NATO SET Panel Excellence Award in 2016, the Finmeccanica Group Innovation Prize in 2014, the Finmeccanica Corporate Innovation Prize in 2014, the IET Best Poster Paper Award (Metamaterials 2013 and Metamaterials 2011), and the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Senior Researcher Award in 2007.

He was a Founding Member of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials—METAMORPHOSE VI in 2007, being President for two terms from 2013 to 2019. He currently serves the METAMORPHOSE VI as the Vice President and the Executive Director (since 2019). He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013-2017, 2022-present) and the Metamaterials Journal from 2007 to 2013 and as a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering from 2009 to 2015, Nature Scientific Reports from 2013 to 2016, and EPJ Applied Metamaterials (since 2013). He hosted in 2007 the inaugural edition of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics— Metamaterials Congress, served as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the same conference for eight editions (2008–2014, and 2019), and was elected as the General Chair of the Metamaterials Congress for the period from 2015 to 2018. He was also the General Chair of the Second International Workshop on Metamaterials-by-Design Theory, Methods, and Applications to Communications and Sensing in 2016 and has been serving as the Chair or a member of the technical program, steering, and organizing committee of the main national and international conferences in the field of applied electromagnetics.

Can Ding received a Bachelor degree from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2009, and a joint Ph.D. Degree from Xidian University and Macquarie University, Australia, in 2016. He is currently a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

His contributions to the antenna and propagation society have been to advance the understanding and the evolution of cutting-edge base station antenna technologies that are leading to the cost-efficient deployment of 5G networks. His accomplishments encompass several research and industry projects, patented innovations, and a portfolio of over 120 publications in top-tier journals and conferences. His publications garnered twelve best paper awards, a featured article by IEEE Xplore across all fields, a front cover article in a flagship journal, and five featured articles in 'What's hot in Antenna and Propagation'. He also actively contributes to AP-S society, serving on committees like the IEEE AP-S Education Committee, IEEE AP-S Young Professional Committee, IEEE AP-S New Technical Direction Committee on Metamaterials, and EurAAP Working Groups. He is acknowledged as a top reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2021 to 2023 and an outstanding reviewer in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in 2022. He currently serves as an associated editor for IEEE AWPL. He is the Early-to-Mid career Educator of the Year in 2023 at FEIT, UTS. He is an Australian ARC DECRA Fellow in 2020, an IEEE AP-S Young Professional Ambassador and an IEEE senior member in 2024.

Anthony Grbic received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, where he is currently the John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering.

His research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, metasurfaces, frequency selective surfaces, photonic bandgap structures), antennas, microwave circuits, time varying and space–time varying electromagnetic systems, cylindrical vector beams, wireless power transmission, and analytical electromagnetics/optics.

Dr. Grbic is the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Microwave Lecturer and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena–Metamaterials. He was a recipient of AFOSR Young Investigator Award as well as NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2008 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in January 2010. He received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, the Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, and the Booker Fellowship Award from United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science in 2011. He was the inaugural recipient of the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Michigan in 2012. He received the University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievement in Scholarly Research, Excellence as a Teacher, Advisor, and Mentor, and Distinguished Service to the Institution and a Profession in 2018, and the David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan in 2022. He served as the Technical Program Co-Chair in 2012 and the Topic Co- Chair in 2016 and 2017 for the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS from 2010 to 2015.

Francesco Monticone is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016, where he was advised by Prof. Andrea Alù. Dr. Monticone joined the faculty of Cornell University in 2017.

Dr. Monticone has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific contributions in peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and has given over 70 invited talks and seminars. Dr. Monticone’s current research interests are in the areas of applied electromagnetics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and nanophotonics, with a focus on the theoretical aspects of these fields. His work is motivated both by fundamental scientific questions about engineered wave-matter interactions and novel applications in a range of areas including imaging and sensing, information processing, communication, defense, and energy.

Dr. Monticone’s research and teaching have been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award, the ONR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the U. S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, the Franco Strazzabosco Award for Research in Engineering, the Michael Tien ’72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award from Cornell University, the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Award from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Monticone is a member of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and has been elected a full member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

Dr. Monticone served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, the flagship journal of the IEEE AP-S society. He also regularly serves as a member of technical program committees and steering committees, as well as session chairman and session organizer, for the leading conferences in the fields of photonics, electromagnetics, and metamaterials.

Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering at Chapman University, with affiliation in the Physics program. Until 2020, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Nader Engheta. Prior to that she received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, in 2016. During her Ph.D., she has been member of the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Research Laboratory working with Prof. Andrea Alu, and has been affiliated with The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT-Asutin.

Dr. Mohammadi Estakhri has authored and co-authored more than 70 scientific contributions. Her research broadly focuses on nanophotonic metamaterials and applied electromagnetics, with recent emphasis on computational metamaterials and machine learning for novel flat optical components. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and is part of the editorial advisory boards of APL Photonics and AIP Journal of Applied Physics. She has received several recognitions and funding for her research, including the ‘rising star in EECS’ by Stanford University (2017), and MIT (2018), Caltech’s EAS Young Investigator Lecturer (2019), and NSF-ERI grant (2021). In 2023, she received the Unit Faculty Excellence Award from Fowler school of Engineering.

Hiroki Wakatsuchi received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Aoyama Gakuin University, Kanagawa, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2011. He was with the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Group, Applied Electromagnetic Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Koganei, Japan, from 2005 to 2008. In 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham. From 2011 to 2013, he was with the Applied Electromagnetics Research Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA, as a Research Scholar. Since 2013, he has been with the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan, as a PRESTO Researcher, from 2019 to 2023.

His research interests include metamaterial research and its applications, for instance, in absorbers, antennas, wireless communications, electromagnetic compatibility, and simulations. Dr. Wakatsuchi received many distinctions, including the York EMC Services Ltd., the Best Paper Prize at the Festival of Radio Science URSI, the Second Prize of the AP-RASC'10 Student Paper Competition at AP-RASC'10 2010 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference in 2010, the Young Researcher Award from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology, the Telecommunications Technology Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, and the Ando Scholar Award.

Stefano Vellucci received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in applied electronics from ROMA TRE University, Rome, Italy, in 2012, 2015, and 2019, respectively.

He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the ELEDIA Research Center, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, from 2019 to 2020 and with the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering, at ROMA TRE University from 2020 to 2022. In 2023 he joined the Department of Engineering at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and since 2024 he serves as an Assistant Professor in electromagnetic field theory.

His main research interests are in the framework of applied electromagnetics, with an emphasis on artificially engineered materials and metamaterials for RF and microwave components, non-linear and reconfigurable metasurfaces for radiating structures, smart antennas for wireless systems, and metasurface-based cloaking devices and his research activities resulted in 110+ papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.

Dr. Vellucci was a recipient of some national and international awards including the IEEE TechDefense Award in 2024, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2022, the IEEE AP-S Award of the Central-Southern Italy Chapter in 2019, the Leonardo-Finmeccanica Innovation Award for “Young Students” in 2015. He is also acknowledged as a top reviewer for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION from 2018 to 2025 and an outstanding reviewer in IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS in 2024. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the EPJ Applied Metamaterials journal and has been a Guest Editor of two journal special issues focused on microwave, photonic, and mechanical metamaterials. Since 2023 is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena and he is serving as a member of the IEEE AP-S Technical Committee on Metamaterials since 2025. He is also a member of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (METAMORPHOSE VI), of the Scientific Board of the Italian Society on Electromagnetics (SIEM), of the National Inter- University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2019, he was a local Organizing Committee Member of the International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena—Metamaterials. Since 2016, he has been serving as a Technical Reviewer for many high-level international journals and conferences related to electromagnetic field theory, metamaterial, and metasurfaces.

Douglas H. Werner received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), University Park, in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively.

He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professorship with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. He is the Director of the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Lab, as well as a Faculty Member with the Materials Research Institute, Penn State.

He holds 20 patents, has published over 1000 technical papers and proceedings articles, and 31 book chapters. His research interests include computational electromagnetics/optics (MoM, FEM, FEBI, FDTD, DGTD, CBFM, RCWA, GO, and GTD/UTD.) as well as the development and application of multi-objective inverse-design techniques (topology optimization, genetic algorithms, clonal selection algorithms, particle swarm, wind driven, ant colony, and various other evolutionary programming schemes). He has also made numerous key contributions in the areas of electromagnetic/optical wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials and metasurfaces, transformation optics, nanoscale electromagnetics (including nanoantennas), flat optics (including gradient index (GRIN) and metalenses), antenna theory and design (including wearable, e-textile, electrically small, GPS, 5G/6G, conformal, additively manufactured, and reconfigurable antennas), phased arrays (including ultra-wideband arrays), high-power microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems (including on-body networks), frequency selective surfaces, and fractal and knot electrodynamics.

Prof. Werner was presented with the 1993 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Best Paper Award and was also the recipient of a 1993 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. In 1994, he received the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory Outstanding Publication Award, the 2006 R. W. P. King Award, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award, the Harold A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award in 2011 and 2014 respectively, the DoD Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, the 2015 ACES Technical Achievement Award, the 2019 ACES Computational Electromagnetics Award, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2019 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award, the 2023 John Kraus Antenna Award, and the 2024 Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics. He was the recipient of a College of Engineering PSES Outstanding Research Award and Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2000 and March 2002, respectively. He was also presented with an IEEE Central Pennsylvania Section Millennium Medal. In March 2009, he received the PSES Premier Research Award. He is a Fellow of nine professional societies including IEEE, IET, NAI, OPTICA, SPIE, ACES, AAIA, AAAS, and the PIER Electromagnetics Academy. He is also a Senior Member of the International URSI and a Life Member of the Association of Old Crows. He is a Former Associate Editor of Radio Science, a Former Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, a Former Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, Nature subjournal, and EPJ Applied Metamaterials, an Editor of IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory & Applications, and a member of URSI Commissions B and G, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi.