is Honorary Professor "Bruno Kessler" of the University of Trento. He is Professor at the University Federico II of Napoli (Italy), Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA), lecturer at Top-Tech Master of Delft University (The Netherland).

He has been Fulbright Scholar and Research Associate at Caltech, Adjunct Professor at University of California Los Angeles (USA) for 16 years, Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois and UCLA, at the Somali University (Somalia), at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He is Life Fellow of IEEE and Member of the Electromagnetic Academy. He is author of over 180 (peer reviewed) papers on Journals of recognized standard and ten books, and recipient of several awards, culminated with the gold medal from the President of the Italian Republic for his achievements in culture and science (2000), and elevation to the grade of Officer of the Italian Republic (2001). His most recent recognitions are the prestigious 2007 IEEE GRS-S Distinguished Achievement Award: For outstanding research in Electromagnetics, Propagation, Remote Sensing and Information Data Processing, that correctly describes his scientific research interests; and the 2008 Schelkunoff Prize (IEEE, AP-Society), for the best paper published on the Transactions, assigned to him for the second time.  

Paolo Rocca received the MS degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trento in 2005 (summa cum laude) and the PhD Degree in Information and Communication Technologies from the same University in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. He is the author/co-author of over 100 peer reviewed papers on international journals and conferences.

He has been a visiting student at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria. Dr. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of antenna array synthesis and design, electromagnetic inverse scattering, and optimization techniques for electromagnetics. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

received the Electronic Engineering degree and Ph.D. degree in space science and engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is with the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy. His main interests are electromagnetic inverse scattering, adaptive antennas synthesis, optimization techniques for microwave imaging, wave propagation in superconducting materials and urban environment.

received the "laurea" degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1992 and the Ph.D degree in "Computer Science, Applied Electromagnetics and Telecomunications Engineering" from University of Salerno, Italy, in 2000. Since 1992 he has actively cooperated with the Applied Electromagnetic Laboratories of the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa in all the experimental activities in Electromagnetic Compatibility and microwave areas. At the same time he has operated as EMC consultant for numerous national companies and as consultant, for main phone operators, for the evaluation of the human exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by cellular phones, transmitting systems, radio and television broadcasting systems.