Professional Career
2014-now: Full Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory at ROMA TRE University
2021-now: Overseas Professor at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology
2011-2014: Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory at ROMA TRE University
2005-2011: Conf. Assistant Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory at ROMA TRE University
2002-2005: Assistant Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory at ROMA TRE University
2001-2002: Adjoint Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory at ROMA TRE University
Education
Ph.D. Degree
University: ROMA TRE University
Degree: Electronic Engineering
Thesis: Design of microwave components loaded with complex materials
Advisor: Prof. Lucio Vegni
Year: 2002
Laurea Degree
University: ROMA TRE University
Degree: Electronic Engineering
Thesis: Design of microwave components loaded with ihnomogeneous substrates
Advisor: Prof. Lucio Vegni
Year: 1998
Short Biography
Filiberto Bilotti received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from ROMA TRE University, Rome, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively.
Since 2002, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering (2002–2012), the Department of Engineering (2013–2021), and the Department of Industrial, Electronic, and Mechanical Engineering (since 2021) at ROMA TRE University, where he serves as a Full Professor of electromagnetic field theory (since 2014) and the Director of the Antennas and Metamaterials Research Laboratory (since 2012).
His main research interests include the analysis and design of microwave antennas and arrays and analytical modeling of artificial electromagnetic materials, metamaterials, and metasurfaces, including their applications at both microwave and optical frequencies. In the last 10 years, his main research interests include the development of intelligent nodes for Smart Electromagnetic Environments; the modeling, design, implementation, and application of reconfigurable intelligent metasurfaces; the modeling and applications of (space and) time-varying metasurfaces; the topological-based design of antennas supporting structured field; the analysis and design of cloaking metasurfaces for antenna systems; the concept of meta-gratings and related applications in optics and at microwaves; the modeling and applications of optical metasurfaces. The research activities developed in the last 20 years has resulted in more than 700 papers in international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and three patents.
Prof. Bilotti was the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions, including the elevation to the IEEE Fellow Grade for contributions to metamaterials for electromagnetic and antenna applications in 2017, the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Chen-To-Tai Distinguished Educator Award in 2023, the Outstanding Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2016 and 2023, the NATO SET Panel Excellence Award in 2016, the Finmeccanica Group Innovation Prize in 2014, the Finmeccanica Corporate Innovation Prize in 2014, the IET Best Poster Paper Award (Metamaterials 2013 and Metamaterials 2011), and the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Senior Researcher Award in 2007.
He has been serving the scientific community, by playing leading roles in the management of scientific societies, in the editorial board of international journals, and in the organization of conferences and courses. In particular, he was a Founding Member of the Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials—METAMORPHOSE VI in 2007. He was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Same society for two terms from 2007 to 2013 and as the President for two terms from 2013 to 2019. He currently serves the METAMORPHOSE VI as the Vice President and the Executive Director (since 2019). He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (2013-2017, 2022-present) and the Metamaterials Journal from 2007 to 2013 and as a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering from 2009 to 2015, Nature Scientific Reports from 2013 to 2016, and EPJ Applied Metamaterials (since 2013). He was also the Guest Editor of six special issues in international journals. He hosted in 2007 the inaugural edition of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics— Metamaterials Congress, served as the Chair of the Steering Committee of the same conference for eight editions (2008–2014, and 2019), and was elected as the General Chair of the Metamaterials Congress for the period from 2015 to 2018. He was also the General Chair of the Second International Workshop on Metamaterials-by-Design Theory, Methods, and Applications to Communications and Sensing in 2016 and has been serving as the Chair or a member of the technical program, steering, and organizing committee of the main national and international conferences in the field of applied electromagnetics.