Sajjad Taravati (SM’21) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, at the University of Southampton, UK. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal (Université de Montréal), Canada, in 2017. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Concordia University, Montréal, where he worked on nonreciprocal magnetless electromagnetic systems and space-time modulation techniques. From 2018 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, conducting research on multifunctional spatiotemporal metasurfaces and advanced electromagnetic wave manipulation. In 2022, he joined the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Researcher, focusing on spatiotemporal superconductors and their applications in quantum technologies. In 2023, Dr. Taravati joined the University of Southampton, where he is currently leading a research group working on fundamental electromagnetic theory, dynamic metasurfaces, antennas, and microwave components for wireless communications, quantum technologies, analogue computing, and radar systems.

Dr. Taravati is the technological founder of LATYS Intelligence Inc. (trading as LATYS FOCUS), a spin-out company based on two patents and journal papers he authored. His research interests include electromagnetics, active and passive microwave components, space-time-modulated metamaterials and metasurfaces, nonreciprocal systems, superconducting quantum circuits, and their applications in next-generation wireless communications and quantum technologies. He has authored more than 30 first-author journal papers in leading venues, including Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, ACS Photonics, and Physical Review Applied. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (elevated in 2021), a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, and an active reviewer for major journals and funding agencies including the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He has also served as a workshop organizer at IEEE conferences and has taught courses in electromagnetics, antennas, and telecommunications at the University of Toronto, the European School of Antennas, and other institutions.