Vincenzo Galdi

Vincenzo Galdi is a Professor of Electromagnetics in the Department of Engineering at the University of Sannio. 

He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in applied electromagnetics from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 1995 and 1999, respectively.

From April to December 1997, he held a visiting position in the Radio Frequency Division of the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC-ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands. From September 1999 to August 2002, he held a post-doctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, and in the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), Boston, MA, USA. In November 2002, he was appointed Associate Professor of Electromagnetics, and joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, where is currently working. In 2014, he received the National Scientific Habilitation as a Full Professor. He has served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in Telecommunication Engineering (2005-2010), and as the Delegate reporting to the Dean of Engineering regarding teaching matters (2007-2013). 

In July-August 2006, within the framework of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment, he held a visiting position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, and at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
He has (co-)edited two books (Selected Topics in Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials, World Scientific, 2011; Electromagnetics in a Complex World: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer-Verlag, 2004), and (co-)authored over 160 papers in peer-reviewed international journals (including Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters), 7 book papers/chapters, and 180 conference papers (60 invited). He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Optics Express and Heliyon (Elsevier), and as a regular reviewer for several journals, conferences and funding agencies. His research interests encompass analytical and numerical modeling of wave propagation in complex environments, metamaterials, transformation optics, electromagnetic chaos, inverse scattering, and gravitational interferometry.

Dr. Galdi is the recipient of a 2001 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) “Young Scientist Award,” a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America), and a member of the American Physics Society (APS) and of the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEM). 

He is the co-founder of the spinoff company MANTID srl, and of the startup company BioTag srl.