Vincenzo Galdi is an Associate Professor of Electromagnetics at the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy.
He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and the PhD 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 (ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL). From September 1999 to August 2002, he held a post-doctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. In November 2002, he joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Sannio, where he has also served as an Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in Telecommunication Engineering (2005-2010). In July-August 2006, he held a visiting position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and at the California Institute of Technology.
He has co-edited two books (Electromagnetics in a Complex World: Challenges and Perspectives, Springer, 2004; Selected Topics in Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials, World Scientific, 2011), and co-authored over 120 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 4 book chapters, and 140 conference papers (50 invited). He is currently serving as a Track Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation and of Heliyon, and a regular reviewer for several journals, conferences and funding agencies.
His research interests encompass wave interactions with complex structures and media, multiphysics metamaterials, electromagnetic chaos, inverse scattering, and gravitational interferometry.
Dr. Galdi is a Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), within the framework of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) project, which made the first direct observation of gravitational waves in 2016.
He is also is the recipient of an “Outstanding Associate Editor Award” (IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2014) and a “Young Scientist Award” (International Union of Radio Science, 2001), a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Optical Society of America, Sigma Xi.