Alessio Monti

Alessio Monti (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Rome, Italy, in 1987. He received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering (summa cum laude), the M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering (summa cum laude), and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical electronics, electromagnetics, and telecommunications engineering from Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, in 2008, 2010, and 2015, respectively. From 2013 to 2021, he was with Niccolò Cusano University, Rome, Italy. Since November 2021, he has been with Roma Tre University, where he serves as an Associate Professor of electromagnetic field theory with the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include varied theoretical and application-oriented aspects of metamaterials and metasurfaces at microwave and optical frequencies, the design of functionalized covers and invisibility devices for antennas and antenna arrays, and the electromagnetic modeling of micro- and nanostructured artificial surfaces. His research activities resulted in 115+ papers published in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has been also involved as a Leader or Senior Researcher in the activities of 30+ research projects funded either by national and international bodies or by private companies. Among them, he is currently responsible for a local unit for the project “MANTLES” focused on the use of cloaking metasurfaces for antennas (PRIN 2017 project) and he is the Principal Investigator of the EIC Pathfinder Open Project “PULSE” focused on reconfigurable plasma metasurfaces. Dr. Monti has been serving the scientific community, by playing important roles in the editorial board of international journals and in the organization of scientific events. In particular, he is the member of the Secretarial Office of the International Association METAMORPHOSE VI and has been on the Editorial Board of the journals EPJ Applied Metamaterials since 2016 and IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation since 2018. In 2019, he has been appointed as a General Chair of the International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials and has been serving as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the same Congress series since 2017. He has also been a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation from 2016 to 2019 and of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics-Metamaterials from 2014 to 2016 and has been the Guest-Editor of five journal special issues focused on metamaterials and nanophotonics. He has also been serving as a Technical Reviewer of many high-level international journals related to electromagnetic field theory, metamaterials, and nanophotonics and has been selected as the Top Reviewer by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2014 to 2019. He was a recipient of several national and international awards and recognitions, including the IEEE Senior Grade in 2019, the URSI Young Scientist Award in 2019, the outstanding Associate Editor Award for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (for four consecutive years, from 2019 to 2022), the Finmeccanica Group Innovation Award for young people in 2015, the Second Place Award at the student paper competition of the Metamaterials’ Conference in 2012, and has been selected as a finalist of the student paper competition of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in 2012.