Guido Valerio

Research areas:

Numerical methods for electromagnetics. Method of moments, Green's functions in periodic/layered media, mode matching for metamaterials.

Analytical methods for electromagnetics. Analytic models for wave propagation in artificial materials.

Antenna design. Leaky-wave antennas, lens antennas, near-field focusing, on-body antennas, doppler radar.

Substrate-integrated waveguides (SIW). Numerical modeling of SIW, radial-line slot antennas, giant resonances in SIW, resonators.

I received the M.S. degree (cum laude and honorable mention) in electronic engineering in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics in 2009, from La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. From February to August 2008 I was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston, TX, USA. From 2011 to 2014, I was a researcher at the Institute d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR), France. Since September 2014 I am with the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Electronique de Paris (GeePs), at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (Université Pierre et Marie Curie before 2018), where I am a Full Professor since 2022. I obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in July 2018. I have visited the Radiation Laboratory at the University of Michigan for one month in 2016, 2017 and 2018. I periodically visit the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden for research and teaching collaborations. In June 2021 I was an Invited Professor at the DIET department, Sapienza University of Rome.

My scientific interests involve antenna design and numerical methods for wave propagation and scattering in complex structures. Namely, periodic Green’s function computation, analytic or semi-analytic methods for periodic/multilayered structures, on-body propagation at millimeter waves, full-wave analysis of SIW, modeling and design of periodic structures with higher-symmetries. I have worked on the design of leaky-wave antennas, lens and reflector antennas in Ka band satellite application, SIW antennas, radial-line slot array antennas for near and far field shaping, in harmonic and pulsed regimes.

In 2008 I was the recipient of the “Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.” In 2009 I was a finalist for the “Young Engineering Prize” at the European Microwave Conference. In 2010 I was the recipient of the “Barzilai Prize” for the best paper at the National Italian Congress of Electromagnetism (XVIII RiNEm). In 2014, I was the recipient of the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award for junior researchers presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, Memphis, TN. In 2018, I was co-author of the best paper in “Electromagnetic and Antenna theory” at the 12th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), London, UK and in 2020 of the best paper in “Electromagnetic and Antenna theory” at the 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2022 I was the co-author of the best student paper at the 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, Spain.

In 2016, I received an ANR JCJC grant with my “HOLeYMETA” project (Modeling and Design of Holey Metasurfaces) and in 2017 I received an EMERGENCE funding from Sorbonne Universités for my project MetaSym (Metasurfaces with Higher Symmetries for Efficient Communicating Devices). I am currently the Main Chair of the SyMat European COST Action on "Future communications with higher-symmetric engineered artificial materials" https://symat-cost.eu/ (2019-2024) and the coordinator of the MSCA Doctoral Network GENIUS "Glide-symmetric metamaterials for innovative radio-frequency communication and sensing" (2023-2027). I am currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and of IEEE Access.

I teach a course of Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics at the E3A (Electrical and Computing Engineering) Master of Sorbonne Université and two courses of Mathematics for Electromagnetics and Signal Theory at the Bachelor of Electrical and Computing Engineering of Sorbonne Université. At the E3A Master I am the co-responsible (with Prof. Julien SARRAZIN) of the "SysCom" (communicating systems) programme, and of the new WaveWiCom international programme opened in fall 2022. I am the responsible for the international mobility of students of the Master of Electrical Engineering and Robotics.