stefano maci

Stefano Maci (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea degree (cum laude) from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1987. He was a co-founder of six spin-off companies. Since 1997, he has been a Professor at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy. In 2004, he was the Founder of the European School of Antennas (ESoA), a postgraduate school that presently comprises 34 courses on antennas, propagation, electromagnetic theory, and computational electromagnetics, and 150 teachers coming from 15 countries. Since 2004, he has been the Director of ESoA. From 2008 to 2015, he was the Director of the Ph.D. program in information engineering and mathematics at the University of Siena. His research activity is documented in 200 articles published in international journals (among which 100 in IEEE journals), 14 book chapters, and about 600 papers in proceedings of international conferences. His research interests include high-frequency and beam representation methods, computational electromagnetics, large phased arrays, planar antennas, reflector antennas and feeds, metamaterials, and metasurfaces. Prof. Maci was a member of the AdCom of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), the Board of Directors of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and the Antennas and Propagation Executive Board of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), U.K. From 2013 to 2015, he was a member of the first National Italian Committee for Qualification to Professor. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Technical Advisory Board of 16 international conferences and the Review Board of six international journals. He was a recipient of the EurAAP Award in 2014, the IEEE Schelkunoff Transaction Prize in 2016, the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2016, and the URSI Dellinger Gold Medal in 2020. He was the Chair of the Award Committee of IEEE AP-S. He has been the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair of the METAMATERIAL 2020 Conference and the General Chairperson of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2023. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Work Package (WP) Leader of the Antenna Center of Excellence (ACE; FP6-EU), and from 2007 to 2010, he was an International Coordinator of the 24-Institution Consortium of a Marie Curie Action (FP6). He founded and was the Director of the consortium FORESEEN, involving 48 European (EU) institutions. He was a Principal Investigator of the Future Emerging Technology Project “Nanoarchitectronics” of the Eighth EU Framework Program. He is a Principal Investigator of the EU Program “Metamask.” Since 2010, he has been a principal investigator of six cooperative projects and a university coordinator of about other 20 cooperative projects financed by the European Space Agency. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-S. He has been a EuRAAP Distinguished Lecturer of the Ambassador Program. In the last ten years, he has been invited 25 times as a keynote speaker in international conferences. He was the President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society 2023. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.