Paolo Burghignoli was born in Rome, Italy, on February 18, 1973. He received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 1997, he joined the Electronic Engineering Department, now Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, “La Sapienza” University of Rome. From November 2010 to October 2015 he was an Assistant Professor with the same University. From January 2004 to July 2004, he was a Visiting Research Assistant Professor with the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. In January 2014, he received the National Scientific Qualification to become an Associate Professor of Electromagnetics in Italian Universities. Since November 2015 he has been an Associate Professor with "La Sapienza" University of Rome. In March 2017, he received the National Scientific Qualification to become a Full Professor of Electromagnetics in Italian Universities.

As concerns educational activities, since 2005 and up to present he has been co-teaching courses of Electromagnetic Fields for the 'Laurea' courses in Information Engineering and in Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome. In the same Faculty he taught the courses of Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics in 2014 and of Advanced Antenna Engineering from 2015 to present for the 'Laurea Magistrale' course in Electronic Engineering. Since 2019 he has taught the doctoral course Analytical Techniques for Wave Phenomena for the PhD program in ICT of Sapienza University of Rome. He was a teacher for Doctoral Courses in the framework of the European School of Antennas (in 2005, 2008, 2001, 2014, and 2017) and for the  Distributed European Doctoral School on Metamaterials in the framework of the European Network of Excellence METAMORPHOSE (in 2008).

His scientific interests include a variety of topics in the areas of electromagnetic theory, antennas, and numerical methods for passive electromagnetic structures.  The principal focus is on leaky waves in uniform and periodic structures, leaky-wave antennas and arrays, numerical methods for integral equations and periodic structures, propagation and radiation in metamaterials, and graphene electromagnetics. Among other topics are: scattering from moving objects, fractal electrodynamics, ground-penetrating radar, active integrated antennas, electromagnetic shielding, and piezoelectric nanowires for energy harvesting.

He was involved as a researcher in the Network of Excellence in the European 6th framework IST - Title: Antenna Centre of Excellence (ACE) - (Start date: 01/01/2004; End date: 31/12/2007; Project reference: IST-2004-508009 & IST-2006-026957 - Network Coordinator: Dr. Bruno Casali - Total budget: Euro 13.534.000), and in the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) in the European 6th framework IST - Title: FRACTALCOMS - Exploring the limits of Fractal Electrodynamics for the future telecomunication technologies - (Start date:1/12/2001 - End date: 30/11/2003; Project reference: IST-2001-33055 - Coordinator: Prof. Juan M. Rius - Total budget: Euro 882.234), as well as in three National Projects (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and in a number of Sapienza University Projects from 1998 up to present.

Dr. Burghignoli is the author of 126 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals, 8 book chapters, and more than 100 contributions to international symposia. His H-index is 32 and the total number of citations he received is 3568 (as of February 2024, Scopus database). He was an Invited Speaker at the Metamaterials 2015 conference held in Oxford, UK, in September 2015.

He is presently serving as an Associate Editor of IET Electronic Letters and of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (Hindawi). He has been a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Nature Communications, Radio Science, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. He was a Member of the TPC (as Reviewer) of the “2004 - URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory”, Pisa, 23-27 May 2004; of the “European Conference on Antennas and Propagation” (EuCAP) from 2017 to present; of the “IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation” from 2017 to present. He was a Reviewer of the chapter "Leaky Wave Antennas" by D. R. Jackson and A. A. Oliner of the Modern Antenna Handbook (C. A. Balanis, Ed.), New York, NY: Wiley, 2008, and of the chapter on "Antennas and the RF Link" in M. Steer, Microwave and RF Design, Stevenage, UK: SciTech Publishing, 2013 (2nd ed.).

Dr. Burghignoli received the Graduate Fellowship Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in 2003, the Raj Mittra Travel Grant for Junior Researchers at the Antennas and Propagation Symposium, Washington, DC, in 2005, and the “Giorgio Barzilai” Laurea Prize from the former IEEE Central and South Italy Section in 2007. He was co-author of one of the "Fast Breaking Papers, October 2007" ("papers that had the highest percentage increase in citations in Essential Science Indicators, Thomson Scientific": http://esi-topics.com/fbp/fbp-october2007.html, field Computer Science). Since 2008 he is a Senior Member of IEEE. In 2016 and 2020 he was one of the Best Reviewers of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation'.

As concerns organization activities, D. Burghignoli was a member of the Scientific Board and of the Local Organizing Committee of the 41st PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) held in Rome since 17 to 20 June 2019. He was a Secretary in the Organizing Committee of the European Microwave Week 2009 (EuMW 2009), Rome, 28 September 2 October 2009, the most important European event in the microwave engineering area, comprising the four conferences European Microwave Conference (EuMC), European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC), European Conference on Wireless Technology (EuWiT), European Radar Conference (EuRAD). He was a Member of the Organizing Committee of the "Riunione Annuale della Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo", Rome, 20-22 June 2007, and a Member of the Organizing Committee of the Workshop/Mini Symposium "New frontiers in radiation and guidance phenomena", Rome, 29-30 September 2003.

Last, but not least, in 1995 he received the 'Diploma' degree in Classical Guitar from the 'S. Cecilia' Conservatory of Music in Rome. The time he spends playing guitar is reducing at an exponential rate; however, unexpected performances solicited by generous friends may occur, like this...