Dr. Giacomo Oliveri of giacomo.oliveri@unitn.it

2D metamaterials and metasurfaces has emerged in the last couple of decades as a powerful approach to improve the performance of antennas and radiating elements beyond what could be obtained by standard materials. Among the vast applications of such a technology, metasurfaces have been used to reduce the mutual-coupling effects in multi-antenna system, to enable antenna co-existence and mutual transparency, to allow frequency/angular filtering, and to enhance the active impedance matching in phased arrays. The recent introduction of Electromagnetic Skins (EMSs) has motivated a complete revolution of metasurface design methodologies and approaches.

EMSs, which are stand-alone structures capable of performing advanced wave manipulation functionalities, have been then used to extend the capabilities of current wireless and sensing systems. The objective of this talk will be to discuss the transition between metasurfaces and EMSs, and to illustrate the recent advances and ongoing trends in their design and implementation.

Biography:

Giacomo Oliveri received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in TLC Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering (University of Trento) and a Board Member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Moreover, he is Adjunct Professor at CentraleSupélec and member of the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec,
Gif-sur-Yvette (France). He has been a visiting researcher at L2S in 2012, 2013, and 2015, and he has been an Invited Associate Professor at the University of Paris Sud, France, in 2014, and visiting professor at Université Paris-Saclay in 2016 and 2017.
Prof. Oliveri received the Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor in 2017 (ASN), and the French National Qualification as Full Professor in 2019. He is author/co-author of over 400 peer-reviewed papers, of which more than 145 on international journals and more than 280 on international conferences, which have been cited more than 7800 times (Scopus). His H-index is 44 (Scopus).
His research work is mainly focused on metamaterials and electromagnetic skin engineering,smart electromagnetic environment methodologies and technologies, electromagnetic direct and inverse problems, and antenna array synthesis.
Prof. Oliveri served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2016-2022), of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2017-2023), and he currently serves as an AE of the EPJ Applied Metamaterials journal, of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks,
of the Microwave Processing journal, and of the Sensors journal. He is member of several IEEE AP Society committees (Membership Benefits Committee; Strategic Analysis Board; Field Awards Nomination Committee; Field Award Committee). He is an elected member of the Board of the Scientific Council of the CNIT. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the Chair of the IEEE AP/ED/MTT North Italy Chapter.

Email:

Address:ELEDIA, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, I-38123 , Trento, Spain