Fabrizio Frezza

Fabrizio Frezza (born October 31, 1960, Rome, Italy) is Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.

Born

October 31, 1960, Rome, Italy

Nationality

Italian

Education

Laurea Degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, 1986

Ph.D. degree in Applied Electromagnetism and Electrophysical Sciences, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, 1991.

Fields

Electromagnetic Fields, Leaky Waves, Optics, Electromagnetic Scattering, Metamaterials

Institutions

Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy

Note

Top Italian Scientist in Engineering

Teaching

• Advanced Electromagnetics and Scattering (6 ECTS), for M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and M.Sc. in Atmospheric Science and Technology
• Artificial Materials, Metamaterials and Plasmonics for Electromagnetic Applications (6 ECTS), for M.Sc. in Nanotechnology Engineering and M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering
• Microwaves Part II, for M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering
• Basic Electromagnetic Fields (9 ECTS), for B.Sc. in Information Engineering, at Latina

Research overview

Electromagnetic waveguides, antennas and resonators, mathematical and numerical methods, electromagnetic scattering, optics, free electromagnetic propagation, thermonuclear plasma heating, anisotropic media, artificial materials and metamaterials, plasmonics, biomedical applications, cultural-heritage and environment applications, artificial intelligence applications to electromagnetic sensing and diagnostics, magnetic resonance applications, electrical transmission lines, electromagnetic compatibility, spectroscopy, terahertz applications, acoustics, technological transfer, history of science and technology.

Present Position

• Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, 2005-present
  • Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics (I3S)
  • Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET)
• Member of the Governing Board of the Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics (from 2020 to December 2022)
  • Member of the Governing Board of the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications
  • Member of the Governing Board of the Curriculum in Electronic Engineering
• Dean of the Information Engineering Curriculum (Latina site, since 2017)
• Dean of the Electromagnetic Fields Group (Sapienza, since November 2022)
• Research and Service Center Saperi&Co Sapienza, member of the executive board and of the scientific board STITCH Research Center (Sapienza information-based Technology InnovaTion Center for Health)

Past Positions

• “La Sapienza” Research Center for Nanotechnology Engineering (CNIS), up to 2022
• “La Sapienza” Research Center for Aerospace (CRAS), up to 2022
• “La Sapienza” Research and Service Center for Technological and Sustainable Innovation (Cersites), up to 2022

International Research Projects (last 5 years)

• Staff Member of the research project European Research Council (ERC), Advanced Grant: SpatioTEmporal Multimode complex optical Systems (STEMS)

• Staff Member of the research Project Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions: Multiscale Optical Frequency Combs: Advanced Technologies and Applications (MOCCA)

• Participating in the European Project Horizon 2020, Clean Sky: EM compatibility ANALYsis & Statistical Techniques in aeronautics (ANALYST)

• Participating in the international project: Advanced skin effect models for future 3D wide bandgap power modules, Luleå University of Technology (Svezia), University of L’Aquila (Italy), Polytechnic of Zurich (Switzerland)

• National representative (substitute), Management Committee, COST Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of Ground Penetrating Radar” (until 2017)

National Research Projects (last 5 years)

• Research Project PON “SPOS” (System for Sustainable Horticulture)

• Research Project SPHeaD Smart Personal Health-care Devices, Lazio Region

• Participant in the research project Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), PRIN call 2017: BEST-Food – Broadband Electromagnetic Sensing Technologies for Food quality and security assessment

• Coworker in the research project Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), PRIN call 2017: NOnlinear photonics with MEtal-less Nanoantennas and metasurfaces (NOMEN)

• Participant in the research project T-MENS (techniques of functional magnetic resonance of brain), Center for Studies and Researches “Enrico Fermi” and Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS), Rome, Italy

• Participant in the research project funded by the Italian Lazio Region, Platform for the Integrated Multimodal Analysis in Applied Neurosciences (PAMINA), Center for Studies and Researches “Enrico Fermi” and Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS), Rome, Italy (until 2018)

• Head of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) research project: “Techniques of three-dimensional (3D) evaluation of cellular growth and morphology in microgravity condition through electromagnetic diffraction (CellTer)” (until 2016).

International scientific and institutional activity

• Promoter of the proposal to allocate at “La Sapienza” University of Rome a Milestone of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in honor of Giovanni Giorgi and his International Measurement System (approval December 2019)

• Institutional representative, Board of the European School of Antennas (ESoA), since 2004

• Institutional Member, “Metamorphose”, Virtual Institute on Artificial Materials and Metamaterials (since 2013)

• Council Member, International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MOCS) since 2013

• Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Senior Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)

• Senior Member, International Union of Radio Science (URSI)

National scientific and institutional activity

• Member of Quadrato della Radio Association (since 2018)

• Italian University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT), member of the scientific board

• Center for Studies and Researches “Enrico Fermi”

• Italian Georadar Association, Managing Board, Vicepresident

• Center for the Sustainable Mobility (Po.Mo.S.), Cisterna di Latina (LT)

• Scientific Council Member, Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA)

• Italian Society of Electromagnetics (SIEm)

International Teaching Activity

• Coordinator and Teacher of the Course, for Ph.D. students and company designers “Traveling-Wave Antennas”, in 2005 and 2008, in the framework of the European School of Antennas (ESoA), Rome, Italy

• Coordinator and Teacher of the Course, for Ph.D. students and company designers, “Leaky Waves and Periodic Structures for Antenna Applications”, in the framework of the European School of Antennas (ESoA), in 2011, 2014, 2017, and 2021, Rome, Italy

Visiting Professorship

• Aalto University, Finland: 2012 and 2013

• University of Lancaster, UK: 2014

• Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), UK: 2015, 2016, and 2017

• Cardiff University, UK: 2018

• University of Kent, UK: 2019

International and national editorial activity

• Topical Editor of Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2014-2017 (first term) and 2017-2020 (second term)

• Director of Book Series on Electromagnetism and Optics (L’Ondivaga), Aracne Editions, Rome, since 2013

• Co-Editor of the volume “New Frontiers in Radiation and Guidance Phenomena: a Tribute to Arthur A.

• Oliner”, Borgia, Rome, December 2007

• Co-Editor of the volume “In Memory of Giorgio Barzilai”, Borgia, Roma, June 2007

• Member of the Scientific Committee of Italian Journal of Composites and Nanotechnologies (Materials, Aerospace, Special Technologies), since 2005

• Co-Editor of the Special Issue of “Atti della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi”, January-April 2004.