Sun Yat-sen University, China
Zhixi Liang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Radio Physics from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, from 2016 to 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University. His current research interests include microstrip magnetic dipole antennas, leaky wave antennas, textile antennas, and RF energy harvesting.
Recent research published by Zhixi in TAP
- Integrated-Antenna-Filter Based on Metal–Dielectric Heterogeneous Resonator, S. -C. Tang, Z. Liang, X. -Y. Wang, J. -X. Chen, Y. Pan and S. Zheng, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 1864-1869, March 2025
- Design of a Microwave/Millimeter-Wave Shared-Aperture Antenna by Hybridizing Series-Fed Antenna Array and Leaky Wave Antenna, Y. Lin, S. Zheng and Z. Liang, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 4764-4772, June 2024
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“Niccolò Cusano” University, Italy
Stefano Vellucci (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in applied electronics from ROMA TRE University, Rome, Italy, in 2012, 2015, and 2019, respectively.
From 2019 to 2020 he was with the ELEDIA Research Center, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, involved in the study and development of metasurfaces for space and terrestrial applications, and from 2020 to 2022 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering, at ROMA TRE University focusing in the development of models and design techniques of reconfigurable metasurfaces for intelligent antenna systems. In 2023 he joined the Department of Engineering at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy as a Post-Doctoral Researcher 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, and received an Honorary Mention at the “Premio Sorrentino” at the XXIV Riunione Nazionale di Elettromagnetismo (RiNEm) in 2022. 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). 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.
Recent research published by Stefano in TAP
- A Statistical Approach for Robust Metasurfaces and Metasurface-Based RIS Engineering, L. Stefanini, D. Ramaccia, M. Barbuto, Z. Hamzavi-Zarghani, M. Longhi, A. Monti, S. Vellucci, A. Toscano, and F. Bilotti, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 5402-5407, June 2024
- Phase-Gradient Huygens’ Metasurface Coatings for Dynamic Beamforming in Linear Antennas, S. Vellucci, M. Longhi, A. Monti, M. Barbuto, A. Toscano and F. Bilotti,vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 7752-7765, Oct. 2023
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Florida International University, USA
Constantinos L. Zekios (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering, the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering communication and satellite telecommunication systems, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering (all with honors) from Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, in 2008, 2011 and 2015, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA, from January 2016 to May 2018, a Fellow Postdoctoral Researcher with the Transforming Antennas Center, Florida International University from May 2018 to August 2020, and a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, from September 2020 to July 2022. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University. His main research interests include theoretical and computational electromagnetics, antennas and antenna arrays, electromagnetic surfaces, beamforming networks, microwave engineering, and photonics.
Recent research published by Constantinos in TAP
- An Ultrawideband Fully Planar Inverted-L Element (FILE) Array, M. Hamza, C. Exadaktylos, C. L. Zekios and S. V. Georgakopoulos, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 174-187, Jan. 2025
- Nonorthogonal Multibeam Network Synthesis Achieving Stein’s Limit and Implementation Based on RGW Technology, D. I. Lialios, C. L. Zekios and S. V. Georgakopoulos,vol. 72, no. 11, pp. 8184-8198, Nov. 2024 More
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Oskar Zetterstrom received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD. degrees in electrical and electromagnetic engineering from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2016, 2019, and 2024, respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at KTH and Cambridge University. He has authored or coauthored over 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Oskar’s research interests include radio astronomy, lens antennas, periodic structures and leaky wave antennas and he received the Per-Simon Kildal award 2025 and the Best Antenna Technology Paper Award at EuCAP 2022 for his works.
Dr. Zetterstrom has been a member of IEEE for 8 years. He is also a member of the EurAAP working group for Early Careers in Antennas and Propagation (ECAP), where he is responsible for the ECAP mentoring program aimed at guiding young researchers in their early career.
Recent research published by Oskar in TAP
- Collimating Truncated Virtual Image Lens, O. Zetterstrom, N. J. G. Fonseca and O. Quevedo-Teruel, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 3928-3937, May 2024
- V-Band Geodesic Generalized Luneburg Lens Antenna With High Beam Crossover Gain, O. Zetterstrom, P. Arnberg, F. V. Vidarsson, A. Algaba-Brazález, L. Manholm, M. Johansson, and O. Quevedo-Teruel, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 7591-7596, Sept. 2023
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