Mohammad Alibakhshikenari

Mohammad Alibakhshikenari (Member, IEEE) was born in Mazandaran, Iran, in February 1988. He received the Ph.D. degree with the European label and Excellent Cum Laude in electronics engineering from the University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’ (UNITOV), Italy, in February 2020. From May to December 2018, he was a Ph.D. Visiting Researcher with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His training during this visit included a research stage at Swedish Company ‘‘Gap Waves AB.’’ During the Ph.D. degree (November 2016 to February 2020), he has attended 13 European doctoral schools in the fields of electromagnetics, antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, RF and Microwave technologies, millimeter-waves and terahertz circuits, which were organized by various European universities and organizations, and he successfully achieved all the credits leading him to obtain the Ph.D. degree with European label. In November 2019, he was winner of a postdoctoral research fund for two years awarded by UNITOV. From July 2021 to August 2024, he was with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, as a Principal Investigator of the CONnecting EXcellence (CONEX)- Plus Talent Training Programme and Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Programme. During this Program he has spent two secondments at the: 1) Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA), Rome, Italy, from April to August 2024, and 2) SARAS Technology Ltd., Company, Leeds, U.K., from December 2022 to May 2023. In addition, during this program he had some short research visits at the: 1) University of Catania, Italy, in May 2024, along with an invited lecture entitled ‘‘Terahertz Antennas based on Metasurface and SIW’’ for the master’s and Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers; 2) University of Messina, Italy, in May 2024; 3) University of Bradford, U.K., in May 2023; and 4) Edinburgh Napier University, U.K., in April 2023. For academic year 2021 and 2022, he received the ‘‘Teaching Excellent Acknowledgement’’ certificate for the course of ‘‘electromagnetic fields’’ from the Vice-Rector of studies of UC3M. From 1st September 2024 to 30th June 2025 he was with UNITOV as a Senior Researcher. On 1st July 2025 he joined to University of Galway, Ireland, as a ROSETTA fellow co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Programme; and Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software, which are coordinated by University of Galway and involved four other universities (Implementing Partners): University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Limerick, and Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include electromagnetic systems, antennas and wave-propagations, metamaterials and metasurfaces, RF and microwave technologies, 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, millimeter-waves and terahertz integrated circuits, gap waveguide technology, beamforming networks, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS),’’ leading him to publish one book, 9 book chapters, more than 150 research articles in scientific journals, and more than 100 research papers in international conferences, including 47 in-person presentations in 29 conferences and 26 on-line presentations in 12 conferences. His research works received more than 8100 citations with H-index above 57 reported by Scopus, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. According to Stanford University yearly analysis, he has been among the World’s Top 2% Scientists of highly cited scientific authors, since 2020. He was listed in both Career Long and Single Year Impact in Stanford’s list. He was a recipient of the two young engineer awards of the 47th and 48th European Microwave Conferences held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2017, and in Madrid, Spain, in 2018, respectively. In April 2020, his research article entitled ‘‘High-Gain Metasurface in Polyimide On-Chip Antenna Based on CRLH-TL for Sub Terahertz Integrated Circuits, Scientific Reports, volume 10, Article number 4298 (2020)’’ was awarded as the Best Month Paper at the University of Bradford, U.K. In addition, he serves the role of an Associate Editor for two scientific journals of Radio Science and The Journal of Engineering (IET). He acts as a referee in several journals, and the  technical program committee (TPC) and session chair of several international conferences. In addition, he is member of the reviewer panel of Dutch Research Council (NWO) and U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service and the External Examiner of several Ph.D. dissertations from various worldwide universities.