Professor Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, and the Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
He is known for his seminal contributions to the fields of microwaves, photonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces.
Dr Alù is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Materials Research Society, Optica, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and the American Physical Society.
Professor Johannes Fink
Johannes Fink is Professor of Quantum Integrated Devices at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), where he started the Quantum Integrated Devices laboratory in 2016.
His team studies quantum coherent effects in superconducting, mechanical and optical chip-based devices with the goal to advance and integrate quantum technology for communication, simulation, sensing and metrology. They used such states to implement a proof-of-principle quantum radar protocol and recently also succeeded in entangling microwaves and light for the first time.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Fritz Kohlrausch award in 2018.
Professor Changzhi Li
Changzi Li is a Professor at Texas Tech University. His research interest is microwave/millimeter-wave radar sensing for healthcare, security, and human-machine interface.
He specialises in portable radar sensor technologies that have significantly advanced healthcare, smart living, structural monitoring, and wireless human-machine interfaces. Dr Li is an MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.
He was the General Chair of the 2024 IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETICS, RF AND MICROWAVES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY. He served as the TPC Chair of the 2022 IEEE RWW.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Professor Jensen Li
Jensen Li is a Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) where he is the Director of the Centre for Metamaterials Research. He is best known for his work in carpet cloaking and his research group has been active in metamaterials research from microwave to optical frequencies, and from electromagnetic to acoustic domain.
During his tenure at HKUST, he has led 6 General Research Funds research grants and 1 Collaborative Research Grant from Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. He is an elected member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Croucher Senior Fellowship 2022.
Professor Li will join the University of Exeter in autumn 2024.
Professor Nils Pohl
Nils Pohl is a Full Professor of integrated systems with Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific papers and has issued several patents.
His research interests include ultrawideband mm-wave radar, design, and optimization of mm-wave integrated SiGe circuits and system concepts with frequencies up to 300 GHz and above, and frequency synthesis and antennas.
He is a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Verband der Elektrotechnik, the European Microwave Association, and the International Union of Radio Science, and has been the recipient of several awards.
Professor Dimitra Psychogiou
Dimitra is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University College Cork and the Head of the Advanced RF Technology Group at Tyndall National Institute, Ireland.
Her research interests include RF design and characterization of reconfigurable microwave and millimeter-wave passive components, RF-MEMS, acoustic wave resonator-based filters, tunable filter synthesis, frequency-agile antennas, and additive manufacturing technologies for 3D antenna sub-systems.
Dimitra is a Senior Member of IEEE and URSI and a member of the IEEE MTT-S Filters and Passive Components (MTT-5) and Microwave Control Materials and Devices (MTT-13) committees.
She is currently serving as the President of URSI Ireland, the Vice-Chair of MTT-13 and the Secretary of USNC-URSI Commission D.