Miguel Navarro-Cía SMIEEE, SMOSA, MInstP, MEOS, FHEA received the MEng and PhD degrees in Telecommunication Engineering, and MRes degree in Introduction to Research in Communications from Universidad Pública de Navarra in 2006, 2010 and 2007, respectively, and the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from University of Birmingham in 2019.

He is a Reader in TeraHertz Science and Engineering at University of Birmingham. He is also affiliated with Imperial College London as a Visiting Researcher. Previously, he was a Research & Teaching Assistant at Universidad Pública de Navarra (2010-2011), a Research Associate at Imperial College London (2011-2012) and University College London (2012), and a Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College London (2012-2015). He worked as a Visiting Researcher at University College London, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College London and Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center.

He is the coauthor of 2 chapter books (e.g., ‘Principles of THz generation’, published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2015), 120+ journal papers, and over 300 conferences papers. He is an editorial board member for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, Frontiers in Photonics – Plasmonics, Advanced Electromagnetics, and Radiophysics and Electronics.

His current research interests include theory, technology and applications of (near-field) time-domain spectroscopy/microscopy/imaging, metamaterials, plasmonics, antennas and frequency-selective surfaces at millimeter-wave, terahertz, and infrared.

Dr. Fakharzadeh received his B.Sc. degree (honors) in Electrical Eng. from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 2000, his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Eng. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002 and his Ph.D degree (honors) in Electrical and Computer Eng. from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2008 with the outstanding achievements in graduate studies. In Dec. 2014, he joined the Electrical Eng. Dept., Sharif University of Technology, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Prior to that, he was the manager of the antenna and packaging group at Peraso Technologies, Toronto, ON, Canada, developing the integrated millimeter-wave solutions for portable electronic devices. He has over 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of phased-array antenna and mm-wave systems. He was a post-doctoral fellow at CIARS lab, University of Waterloo (2009-2010). He has authored over 100 papers and holds 10 US patents. During 2019-2021, he was the director of Sharif University Advanced Technologies Incubator, focusing on training and developing over 65 high-tech startups. Currently, Dr. Fakharzadeh is the CTO of Basir Wave Technologies, developing the millimeter-wave imaging systems.

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 received his Laurea (2001) and PhD (2007) from the University of Roma Tre, Italy, and, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until Jan. 2018. Dr. Alù is a Fellow of NAI, AAAS, IEEE, OSA, MRS, SPIE and APS, and has received several scientific awards, including the Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and the NSF Alan T. Waterman award.

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