CURRICULUM

CURRICULUM VITAE DI GIAMPIERO LOVAT

Education:

2005: Ph.D. in Electromagnetics from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Thesis dissertation: “Leakage phenomena in dielectric, printed, and metamaterial planar structures”

2001: “Laurea” degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. Thesis dissertation in Electromagnetic Fields.

1993: “Diploma di Maturità Classica” degree from Liceo Classico Statale “Orazio” of Rome with full marks (60/60).

Biographical sketch:

Giampiero Lovat was born in Rome on May 31st 1975. He received the “Diploma di Maturità Classica” degree from Liceo Classico Statale “Orazio” of Rome with full marks (60/60). He received the “Laurea” degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in Electromagnetics in 2001 and in 2005, respectively, both from “La Sapienza” University of Rome. In 2005 he joined the Electric Engineering Department of “La Sapienza” University of Rome as an Associate Researcher. Since 2010, he is an Assistant Professor in the Astronautical, Electrical, and Energetic Engineering Department at the same University.

He has been doing research activity on leaky waves, periodic structures, complex media, and electromagnetic shielding. From January 2004 to July 2004 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

He is co-author of more than 100 papers on national and international books, journals, and conference proceedings.

In 2011 he was the recipient of the Best Paper Symposium Award at the 2011 IEEE EMC-S International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility in Long Beach, CA, USA. He is author of “Fast Breaking Papers, October 2007” in EE and CS, about metamaterials (paper that had the highest percentage increase in citations in Essential Science Indicators, ESI). In 2005 he was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award at the URSI General Assembly in New Delhi, India.

In 2005, he has also been an Invited Lecturer for the course “High-frequency techniques and traveling-wave antennas” organized by the European School of Antennas and for the course “Second week of the Distributed European Doctorate School on Metamaterials” organized by METAMORPHOSE Network of Excellence.

Giampiero Lovat is a member of IEEE, IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-S), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). He is Associate Editor for the journals IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and Hindawi International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, Elsevier Journal of Computational Physics, IOP Nanotechnology, SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics, URSI Radio Science, Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Brill Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Elsevier Metamaterials, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, ACES Journal, Emerald COMPEL, and IOS Press International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics.

Research Activity:

Giampiero Lovat has been engaged in a variety of research topics. In particular:

Electrodynamics of graphene and carbon nanotubes

Energy harvesting by means of piezoelectric nanowires

Electromagnetic shielding

Numerical methods for the analysis of periodic structures

Homogenization and characterization of artificial materials

Analysis of directive radiation from elementary sources

Leakage phenomena and multimodal propagation in printed structures

Leaky-wave antennas and arrays

PUBLICATIONS

Honors and Awards:

  • Best Paper Symposium Award for the presentation of the paper “Shielding performance of nanostructured transparent thin films loading apertures of metallic enclosures excited by dipole sources” at the 2011 IEEE EMC-S International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 14-19 August 2011, Long Beach, CA, USA.

  • Author of one of the "Fast Breaking Papers, Oct. 2007". Papers that had the highest percentage increase in citations in Essential Science Indicators (ESI, Thomson Scientific).

  • Young Scientist Award for the presentation of the paper “Fundamental properties of broadside radiation from uniform leaky-wave antennas” at the XXVIIIth URSI General Assembly, 23-29 October 2005, New Delhi, India.

Research Projects:

Participation/member:

2011: Programma di ricerca universitaria - Title: "CArbon-based Materials as high sensitive PIezoresistive micro Strain sensors (CAMPIS)".

2010: Progetto di Ricerca triennale FIRB "Futuro in Ricerca" - Title: "Nanogeneratori di ossido di zinco ad altissima efficienza per l'alimentazione di microsistemi impiantabili e di reti wireless di sensori" - Project leader: Dr. Christian Falconi.

2010: Programma di ricerca universitaria - Title: "Sviluppo di metodologie di progetto di superfici schermanti selettive in frequenza".

2009: Ricerca di Ateneo Federato di Scienza e della Tecnologia AST - Title: "Analisi e sintesi di schermi artificiali per sorgenti di campo vicino a radiofrequenza".

2008: Programma di ricerca universitaria - Title: "Analisi e sintesi di rivestimenti interni per cavità schermanti a radiofrequenza".

2007: Progetto di Ricerca biennale Cofinanziamento MIUR-PRIN - Title: "Studio e sperimentazione di un sistema di comunicazione ad onde convogliate in impianti elettrici navali" - Project leader: Prof. Marco Raugi.

2007: Ricerca di Ateneo Federato di Scienza e della Tecnologia AST - Title: "Metodi numerici per l'analisi di contenitori schermanti risonanti".

2006: Ricerca di Ateneo - Title: "Metodi di analisi e di sintesi di schermi selettivi in frequenza".

2005: Progetto di Ricerca biennale Cofinanziamento MIUR-PRIN - Title: "Metodi ed algoritmi integrati per la diagnostica non distruttiva di beni architettonici" - Project leader: Prof. Giuseppe Acciani.

2004: Network of Excellence in the European 6th framework IST - Title: "Antenna Centre of Excellence (ACE)" - (Start date: 01/01/2004; End date: 31/12/2007) - Project reference: IST-2004-508009 & IST- 2006-026957 - Network Coordinator: Dr. Bruno Casali.

2004: Ricerca di Facoltà - Title: "Analisi della propagazione e della radiazione in strutture planari metamateriali".

2003: Ricerca di Ateneo - Title: "Analisi e progetto di strutture elettromagnetiche a bandgap fotonico".

2002: Ricerca di Ateneo - Title: "Antenne frattali a microonde e onde millimetriche".

2002: Finanziamento MURST "Progetto Giovani Ricercatori 2002" - Title: "Studio di problemi di scattering elettromagnetico diretto e inverso da oggetti sepolti".

Coordination:

2012: Programma di Ricerca Universitaria - Title "Graphene tunable nanoantennas and nanowaveguides for terahertz applications", € 40000.

Conferences and Short Courses:

“2002 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium,” Seattle, Washington, 2-7 June 2002.

“XIV National Meeting on Electromagnetics,” Ancona, Italy, 16-19 September 2002.

“32nd European Microwave Conference,” Milano, Italy, 23-27 September 2002.

“Workshop on Teaching Electromagnetics,” Roma, Italy, 28 February 2003.

“2003 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8-13 June 2003.

“Annual Meeting of Italian Group of Telecommunications and Information Theory and of Electromagnetics Group,” Trento, Italy, 17-19 June 2003.

“Analytic and Geometric Methods in Inverse Problems,” Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 August 2003.

“Workshop on Inverse Spectral Problems,” Helsinki, Finland, 1-5 September 2003.

“Workshop/Mini-Symposium on New Frontiers in Radiation and Guidance Phenomena,” Roma, Italy, 29-30 September 2003.

“Workshop in memory of Giorgio Barzilai,” Roma, Italy, 15-16 April 2004.

“2004 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium,” Fort Worth, Texas, 6-11 June 2004.

“2004 IEEE AP-S International Symposium”, Monterey, California, 20-25 June 2004.

“XV National Meeting on Electromagnetics,” Cagliari, Italy, 13-16 September 2004.

“XXI National Meeting on Electrotechnics,” Roma, Italy, 16-18 June 2005.

“2005 IEEE AP-S International Symposium”, Washington, DC, 3-8 July 2005.

“Annual Meeting of Italian Group of Telecommunications and Information Theory and of Electromagnetics Group,” Torino, Italy, 11-13 September 2005.

“International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 05)”, Torino, Italy, 12-16 September 2005.

“28th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)”, New Delhi, India, 23-29 October 2005.

“2007 ACES Conference, The 23rd International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics”, Verona, Italy, 19-23 March 2007.

“Metamaterials’2007, First International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics”, Roma, Italy, 22-26 October 2007.

“2009 IEEE EMC Europe Workshop”, Athens, Greece, 11-12 June 2009.

“2012 IEEE EMC Europe”, Rome, Italy, 17-21 September 2012.

Teaching:

Invited Seminars:

2004: Seminar “Properties of broadside radiation from uniform leaky-wave antennas” for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

2004: Seminar “Modal properties and radiative characteristics of metamaterial structures” for the Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.

2005: Seminar “Enhanced-directivity radiators with metamaterial substrates” for the Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society (Central & South Italy Section).

Invited Lecturer:

2005: Invited lecturer for the course “High-frequency techniques and traveling-wave antennas,” for the European School of Antennas, organized by Antennas Network of Excellence, University of Siena and “La Sapienza” University of Rome, 21-26 February 2005.

2005: Invited lecturer for the course “Second week of the Distributed European Doctorate School on Metamaterials,” organized by METAMORPHOSE Network of Excellence, University of Siena, 21-25 November 2005.

Undergraduate courses:

2002-2005: Exercises and seminars for the Electromagnetic Field Theory I courses at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

2005-2014: Exercises and lectures for the Electrical Circuits II course at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

2005-2012: Exercises and lectures for the Electrical Circuits course at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

2012-2014: Teacher of the course Electrical Circuits at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

2012-2014: Teacher of the course Electrical Circuits, Plants, and Machines at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

Graduate courses:

2002-2006: Exercises and seminars for the Electromagnetic Field Theory II course at “La Sapienza” University of Rome.

  • Boards of examiners for the Electromagnetic Field Theory I, Electromagnetic Field Theory II courses, Electronic Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

  • Boards of examiners for the Electrical Circuits II course, Electrical Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

  • Advisor of undergraduating students in Environmental Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

  • Co-advisor of graduating students in Electronic Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

  • Co-advisor of graduating students in Telecommunications Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome.

Services:

Associate Editor for

  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

  • Hindawi International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology

Reviewer for:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

  • IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

  • IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

  • IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

  • IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

  • IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

  • Elsevier Journal of Computational Physics

  • IOP Nanotechnology

  • SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics

  • URSI Radio Science

  • Wiley Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

  • Brill Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

  • Elsevier Metamaterials

  • Springer Wireless Personal Communications

  • Emerald COMPEL

  • ACES Journal

  • IOS Press International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics

Member of the Local-Organizing Program Committee for international conference “EMC Europe 2012”, Roma, Italy, 17-21 September 2012.

Co-organizer and co-chairman of the Special Session “Metamaterial Structures with Application to Guided-Wave Electromagnetics and Antennas” at the 2007 ACES Conference.

Member of the Technical-Organizing Program Committee for the Workshop/Mini-Symposium “New Frontiers in Radiation and Guidance Phenomena”, Roma, Italy, 29-30 September 2003.