Mohammad Alibakhshikenari

Mohammad Alibakhshikenari (Member, IEEE) was born in Mazandaran, Iran, in February 1988. He received the Ph.D. degree with a European Label in electronics engineering from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy, in February 2020. From May 2018 to December 2018, he was a Ph.D. Visiting Researcher with Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His training during this Ph.D. research visit included a research stage with Swedish Company Gap Waves AB, Gothenburg. Since July 2021, he has been with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (uc3m), Spain, as a Principal Investigator of the CONEX (CONnecting EXcellence)-Plus Talent Training Program and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. He was also a Lecturer with the Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Laboratory, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, from 2021 to 2022. He received the “Teaching Excellent Acknowledgement” Certificate for the course of electromagnetic fields from the Vice-Rector of Studies of uc3m. From December 2022 to May 2023, he spent three industrial and academic research visits, such as SARAS Technology Ltd. Company, Leeds, U.K.; Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.; and the University of Bradford, Bradford, England, U.K., which were defined by CONEX-Plus Talent Training Program and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions as his secondment research visit plans. His research interests include electromagnetic systems, antennas and wave-propagations, metamaterials and metasurfaces, sensors, synthetic aperture radars (SAR), 5G and beyond wireless communications, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, RFID tag antennas, substrate integrated waveguides (SIWs), impedance matching circuits, microwave components, millimeter-waves and terahertz integrated circuits, gap waveguide technology, beamforming matrix, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), which led to achieve more than 5800 citations and H-index above 48 reported by Scopus, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. He was a recipient of the three-year Principal Investigator Research grant funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant started, in July 2021, the two years Postdoctoral Research Grant funded by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” started, in November 2019, the three years Ph.D. Scholarship funded by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” started, in November 2016, and the two Young Engineer Awards of the 47th and 48th European Microwave Conference were held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2017, and Madrid, Spain, in 2018, respectively. In April 2020, his research article titled “High-Gain Metasurface in Polyimide On-Chip Antenna Based on CRLH-TL for Sub Terahertz Integrated Circuits” published in Scientific Reports was awarded as the Best Month Paper at the University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He is serving as an Associate Editor for Radio Science and IET Journal of Engineering. He also acts as a referee in several highly reputed journals and international conferences.