President
Alessandro Toscano
Alessandro Toscano (born in Capua in 1964) graduated in Electronic Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1988 and obtained his PhD in 1993. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Engineering of Roma Tre University.
From April 2013 to January 2018, he served as a member of the Academic Senate of Roma Tre University. From October 2016 to October 2018, and again since December 2023, he has served as a member of the National Commission for the Italian National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for first- and second-tier university professorships in Academic Recruitment Field 09/F1 – Electromagnetic Fields.
From January 23, 2018, to March 31, 2022, he served as Vice-Rector for Innovation and Technology Transfer.
He is a member of the Lazio Region Observatory on the Impact of Regional Legislation, the Governing Board of the Interuniversity Research Center on Pollution and the Environment (CIRIAF), and the Governing Board of the Interuniversity Center for Advanced Studies on Blockchain, Innovation and Labor Policies (Labchain). He is also a member of the Italian Association of Scientists and a Visiting Professor at Nanjing University (China).
He coordinates and participates in several research projects and contracts funded by national and international industries and research institutions, both public and private.
Members of the Board of Directors
Tommaso Isernia
Tommaso Isernia è dal 2005 Prof. Ordinario di Campi Elettromagnetici presso la Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, dove ha ricoperto diversi ruoli tra I quali la Direzione del ‘Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e della Energia Sostenibile’ dal 2018 al 2023. A dicembre 2022 il Dipartimento è stato incluso nella ristretta lista dei ‘Dipartimenti di Eccellenza dal MIUR. Ha fondato e coordina il ‘LEMMA’(Lab for ElectroMagnetics Methods and Applications) Group @Università Mediterranea. Tutti le pubblicazioni presentate dal LEMMA nell’ambito della ultima ‘Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca’ da parte di MIUR-ANVUR sono state giudicate ‘eccellenti ed estremamente rilevanti’. Soltanto altri due gruppi di ricerca (includendo tutte le aree e settori scientifico disciplinary) hanno ottenuto tale valutazione massima. Gli interessi scientifici di Tommaso Isernia hanno riguardato lo sviluppo di nuovi metodi per la soluzione di problem inversi non lineari in elettromagnetismo, e le relative applicazioni. La produzione scientifica include circa 160 lavori su riviste internazionali ‘peer reviewed’, e corrisponde ad un h- index pari a 46 (Scopus, Giugno 2024). E’ dal 2022 Fellow della IEEE. Il Prof. Isernia è stato tutor o co-tutor di circa 15 studenti di dottorato, molti dei quali sono risultati vincitori di riconoscimenti per giovani ricercatori in ambito SIEM, CNIT, o IEEE.
Andrea Galtarossa
Andrea Galtarossa is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua.
His research activities are primarily focused on propagation effects in optical fibers, particularly: measurement of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers and components; PMD effects in high-bit-rate systems; distributed birefringence measurements in optical fibers using polarimetric optical reflectometry techniques; PMD mitigation techniques; design of ultra-low PMD fibers; polarization effects in telecommunications and specialty fibers; fiber-optic sensors; and modeling and characterization of optical fibers for space-division multiplexing (SDM).
He has served as a member of the Technical Program Committee of the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) and the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC).
He also served as Topical Editor of OSA Optics Letters (2009–2013) and Deputy Editor of Optics Letters (2014–2020). Since 2022, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Light: Science & Applications (Nature).
He is the author or co-author of approximately 200 regular and invited papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of international conferences.
Andrea Galtarossa has been a Fellow of OPTICA (formerly the Optical Society of America) since 2016, an IEEE Fellow since 2018, a member of the IEEE Photonics Italy Chapter Board since 2008, and a full member of the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti since 2017.
Andrea Massa
Andrea Massa (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Electromagnetic Academy Fellow) he has been a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields @ University of Trento. At present, Prof. Massa is the director of the network of federated laboratories “ELEDIA Research Center” and holder of a Chang-Jiang Chair Professorship @ UESTC (Chengdu – China), Visiting Research Professor @ University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago – USA), Distinguished Visiting Professor @ Tsinghua (Beijing – China), Visiting Professor and IAS Distinguished Scholar @ Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv – Israel), and Professor @ CentraleSupélec (Paris – France). He has been holder of a Senior DIGITEO Chair at CentraleSupélec in Saclay (France), UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). His research activities are mainly concerned with inverse problems, antenna analysis/synthesis, radar systems and signal processing, cross-layer optimization and planning of wireless/RF systems, system-by-design and material-by-design, and theory/applications of optimization techniques to engineering problems (coms, medicine, and biology).
Giuseppe Mazzarella
Treasurer
Giuseppe Mazzarella graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 1984 and obtained his PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 1989.
In 1990, he became a Researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Since 1992, he has been affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari, first as an Associate Professor (1992–2000) and subsequently as a Full Professor.
From 2012 to 2015, he served as Head of the Department, and from 2015 to 2021, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Cagliari. He currently serves as the Rector’s Delegate for Aerospace Activities.
From 2018 to 2023, he was President of SIEm (Italian Society of Applied Electromagnetism), and from 2008 to 2013, he served as Vice President of CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications).
He has served as Principal Investigator (PI) or local coordinator of joint research projects funded by national and regional agencies, focusing on various antenna-related topics, including the analysis and design of wire, printed, and slot antennas, antenna diagnostics, and the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data.
He is an IEEE Senior Member and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Central and South Italy Joint Chapter of the Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) and Antennas and Propagation (AP) Societies.
Maurizio Migliaccio
Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91–SM’00–F’17) is a Full Professor of Electromagnetics at the University of Naples Parthenope (Italy) and is also affiliated with CNR-ISMAR.
He has served as an Affiliated Full Professor at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA), and at INGV, Rome, Italy. He has been teaching Microwave Remote Sensing since 1994.
He was a Visiting Scientist at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He has served as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the ASI Second-Generation COSMO-SkyMed Panel, and the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of e-GEOS.
He was the Italian Delegate to the European Space Agency (ESA) Programme Board for Earth Observation (PB-EO) and a member of the South African Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration.
He serves as a reviewer for the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), the National Center for Science and Technology (NCST), Kazakhstan, and the Hong Kong Research Board.
He has delivered lectures in the United States, Canada, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Ecuador, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, and Italy.
He was the Italian Delegate to the EU COST SMOS Mode Action. He is included in the Italian Top Scientists ranking and among the world’s top 2% of scientists.
He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, and the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Special Issue on MetroSea23.
Previously, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Special Issue on Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) Special Issue on COSMO-SkyMed. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics.
Since 2024, he has served as the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Chapters Coordinator.
Luca Perregrini
Secretary
Luca Perregrini is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Pavia, where he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the Microwave Laboratory.
He was a Visiting Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada (2001–2006).
His main research interests include numerical methods for electromagnetics, passive microwave circuits, quasi-optical frequency multipliers, frequency-selective surfaces and metasurfaces, and antennas.
He has been the Principal Investigator of numerous research contracts with leading international research centers and companies.
He is the author of over 120 journal articles, more than 300 conference papers, six book chapters, and two textbooks. He also co-edited the book Periodic Structures.
He has received several Best Paper Awards at international conferences.
Professor Perregrini has been an IEEE Fellow since 2016.
