What is this course about?
Metasurfaces, a class of thin metamaterials, have shown unprecedented capabilities in the local manipulation of phase, amplitude and polarization of electromagnetic waves from microwave to optical frequencies by tailoring the geometry of building elements. At microwave frequencies, they are constituted by sub-wavelength size patches or pins printed on thin grounded dielectric substrates or realized as a texture in a metal surface. During this course the background and basic theory of different types of canonical metasurfaces will be explained, as well as how to realize such surfaces for different applications, and how to devise good theoretical models and implement them numerically.
Organizers
Stefano Maci
He received the Laurea degree from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1987. He has been a Professor with the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, since 1997. He was a WP Leader of the Antenna Center of Excellence (FP6-EU) from 2004 to 2007, and an International Coordinator of a 24-institution consortium of a Marie Curie Action (FP6) from 2007 to 2010. He has been a Principal Investigator of six projects financed by the European Space Agency since 2004.
In 2004, he was the Founder of the European School of Antennas, Athens, Greece, a post graduate school that currently comprises 30 courses on antennas, propagation, electromagnetic theory, and computational electromagnetics and 150 teachers coming from 15 countries.
He was the co-founder of two spinoff companies. He is the Director of the Consortium FORESEEN, presently involving 40 European Institutions. His research activity is documented in 140 papers in international journals, (among which 90 on IEEE journals), ten book chapters, and about 300 papers in proceedings of international conferences on high-frequency and beam representation methods, computational electromagnetics, large phased arrays, planar antennas, reflector antennas and feeds, metamaterials and metasurfaces. These papers have received around 4200 citations.
Prof. Maci was an AdCom Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), an Associate Editor of AP-Transaction, the Chair of the Award Committee of IEEE AP-S, and a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). He has also been a member of the National Italian Committee for Qualification to Professor and the Antennas and Propagation Executive Board of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K. He was a recipient of the EurAAP Award in 2014, the Shelkunoff Transaction Prize in 2016, and the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2016. Since 2000, he has been a member of Technical Advisory Board of the 11 international conferences and a member of the Review Board of six International Journals. He organized 25 special sessions in international conferences, and he held ten short courses in the IEEE AP-S Symposia about metamaterials, antennas and computational electromagnetics. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-S from 2010 to 2014.
Zvonimir Sipus
Zvonimir Šipuš (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1997. From 1988 to 1994, he was a Research Assistant with Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, where he was involved in the development of detectors for explosive gasses. In 1994, he joined the Antenna Group, Chalmers University of Technology, where he was involved in research projects concerning conformal antennas and soft and hard surfaces. In 1997, he joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, where he is currently a Professor. From 1999 to 2005, he was also an Adjunct Researcher with the Department of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology. Since 2006, he has been involved in teaching with the European School of Antennas. From 2008 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2018, he was the Head of the Department of Wireless Communications. His research interests include the analysis and design of electromagnetic structures with application to antennas, microwaves, and optical communication and sensor systems.
Cristina Yepes
Cristina Yepes received the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Navarra, Navarra, Spain, in 2015 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical electromagnetics from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and with the Radar Department, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) Defense, Safety and Security, The Hague, The Netherlands in 2020. She was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Siena, Siena, Italy from 2020 to 2021, and with the Public University of Navarra from 2021 to 2022. In 2022 she received the Post-Doctoral fellowship ‘Juan de la Cierva’ at the Public University of Navarra.
Since 2022, she is an Antenna Scientist Innovator with the Antenna Group, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) Defense, Safety and Security, The Hague, The Netherlands.
She is the treasurer, secretary and a BoD member of the European School of Antennas and Propagation (ESoA) under the umbrella of EurAAP, and a committee member of the IEEE AP-S Young Professionals. She is also a member of the EurAAP Working Groups Women in Antennas and Propagation (WiAP) and Early Careers in Antennas and Propagation (ECAP). She is one of three organizers of the EurAAP Mentoring Program that will be start in 2024 and she assists EurAAP in general updating the website, posting in LinkedIn and designing the graphics for social media.
She has also been actively involved in the preparation of EuCAP 2023 and was the Volunteers organizer of that edition.
Dr. Yepes was a co-recipient of the Best Innovative Paper Prize at the 39th ESA Antenna Workshop in 2018.
Her current research interests include analysis and design techniques for phased array antennas and frequency-selective surfaces, analytical and numerical methods for antenna characterization, metasurfaces and metalenses.