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Giovanni Andrea Casula (M’04) received the Laurea (summa cum laude) degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. From 2006 to 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor of Electromagnetic with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, and since 2017 he is Associate Professor in the same University, where he is teaching courses in electromagnetics and antenna engineering.

EDITORIAL BOARD
-    Since February 2019, he is an Associate Editor of “IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation”
-    Since December 2019, he is Academic Editor of “International Journal of Antennas and Propagation”
-    Since April 2020, he is Editorial Board Member of “MDPI Sensors” Multidisciplinary Open Access International Journal
-    Since May 2020, he is Editorial Board Member of “MDPI Electronics” Multidisciplinary Open Access International Journal

-    Since September 2022, he is an Associate Editor of “IEEE Transactions On Antennas & Propagation”
-    Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "UHF Wearable Antennas for RFID Applications" for “MDPI Sensors” Multidisciplinary Open Access International Journal
-    Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Body-Friendly Antennas: Emerging Materials, Manufacturing Techniques, and Design Strategies” for “IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation”
-    Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue Special Issue "Wearable Antennas and Sensors for Microwave Applications" per “MDPI Sensors” Multidisciplinary Open Access International Journal

CONFERENCE AND SPECIAL SESSIONS ORGANIZATION
-    Member of the organizing committee of the XXII RiNEm 2018 - National Italian Conference of Electromagnetism, 3-6 September 2018, Cagliari.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” of the “Special Session on Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics, Antenna Design, and Applications (ACME 2016)”, at “The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016)”, Innsbruck, 18-22 Luglio 2016.
-    Member of the organizing committee of the XV RiNEM - National Italian Conference of Electromagnetism, 13-16 September 2004, Cagliari.
-    Member of the organizing committee of the “Cagliari EMC Workshop 2000 UE COST 261: Workshop on computational Electromagnetics for Complex and Distributed Systems”, Cagliari, Italy, 22-23 May 2000
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” for “IEEE MOCAST 2018 – International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies”, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 Maggio 2018.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” for “IEEE MOCAST 2019 – International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies”, Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-15 Maggio 2019.
-    Member of the ”International Technical Program Committee” at “2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications”, RFID-TA 2019, Pisa, Italy, 23-25 September 2019.    
-    Organizer of the “Special Session” entitled “Novel Antennas for RFID Applications” at “2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications”, RFID-TA 2019, Pisa, Italy, 23-25 September 2019.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” at “International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)”, Bucharest, Romania, February 25-28, 2020.    
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” at “Splitech 2020, 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies”, Split, Croatia, July, 1-4, 2020.
-    Organizer of the “Special Session” entitled “Advances in RFID technologies for IoT Applications” at “Splitech 2020, 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies”, Split, Croatia, July, 1-4, 2020.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” at “European Microwave Week 2020 (EuMW2020)”, Utrecht, Nederlands, January 10-15, 2021.
-    Organizer of the “Special Session” entitled “Emerging Antenna Technologies for RFID Applications” at “European Microwave Week 2020 (EuMW2020)”, Utrecht, Nederlands, January 10-15, 2021.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” at “Splitech 2021, 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies”, Split, Croatia, September, 8-11, 2021.
-    Organizer of the “Special Session” entitled “RFID/IoT Wireless technologies for Wearable Applications” at “Splitech 2020, 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies”, Split, Croatia, September, 8-11, 2021.
-    Member of the “International Technical Program Committee” at “2021 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications”, RFID-TA 2021, Delhi, India, 6-8 October 2021.
-    Organizer of the “Special Session” entitled “Advanced Circuit and RF Radio Front-ends for RFID Sensing” at “2021 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications”, RFID-TA 2021, Delhi, India, 6-8 October 2021.
-    General Chair of the “2022 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications”, RFID-TA 2022, Cagliari, Italy, 12-14 September 2022.

INVITED PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
-    Tucconi, F., Casula, G.A., Montisci, G., Mazzarella, G.  “Robustness of wearable UHF-band ungrounded antennas to human-body proximity”, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, EMTS 2016
-    Casula, A., Montisci, G., Mazzarella, G., Michel, A., Nepa, P. “A theoretical analysis to reduce the human body effect on wearable PIFAs performance”, URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, EMTS 2016.
-    Giovanni Andrea Casula. “A Quarter Mode SIW Antenna for Short Range Wireless Communications”, 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, AT-RASC 2018
-    Giovanni Andrea Casula. “A Design Rule to Reduce the Human Body Effect on Antennas for Short Range NF-UHF RFID Systems” , 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, AT-RASC 2018
-    Giovanni Andrea Casula, Giuseppe Mazzarella, Giorgio Montisci. "Improved Design Techniques for High Performance Planar Waveguide Slot Arrays", Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2019), Rome, 17 - 20 June, 2019.
-    Giovanni Andrea Casula. " A Numerical Study on the Robustness of UWB Wearable Antennas w.r.t. the Human Body Proximity", International Conference IEEE RFID-TA 2019, Pisa, September 25-27, 2019.

RESEARCH TOPICS

Giovanni Andrea Casula is author or co-author of 49 papers in international journals, and of over 65 publications in national and international Conferences (SCOPUS database). His main research topics are:

-    Wearable antennas and RFID antennas. Analysis and design of antennas for passive RFID tags using flexible and unconventional substrates. Improvement of the robustness of wearable antennas with respect to the human body coupling. Reduction of the antenna sensitivity to the random changes of the antenna- body distance due to the wearer natural movements.

-    Analysis and design of waveguide slot arrays and SIW slot arrays.

-    Numerical analysis of waveguide discontinuities in the feeding network of waveguide slot arrays.

-    Effective analysis and design of waveguide slot arrays, including the design of their beam-forming networks. Development of synthesis procedures for the design of shaped beam waveguide slot arrays, conformal waveguide slot arrays and SIW slot arrays.

-    Analysis, and design of wire, patch and slot antennas

-    Microwave antennas design using genetic programming

-    Periodic structures design (EBG and AMC) through evolutionary programming

-    Printed log-periodic dipole antennas design using innovative feeding techniques and inkjet printing

The research activity is performed also in cooperation with other national and international research groups. Main cooperation is with researchers from the following institutions:
-    College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha (China)
-    INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
-    Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
-    Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa
-    Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università del Salento
-    IDLab-EM Group, imec-Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
-    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e Materiali, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
-    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università della Calabria, Rende
-    Cias Elettronica Srl, Milano
-    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Barbara, California

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND TECNOLOGICAL TRANSFER ACTIVITY

He participated in the following projects and financed research activities:
-     “Modellistica e progetto di antenne e allineamenti in banda K e Q”, founded by: PRIN 1999-2000, duration: 24 months.
-    “Modellistica ed analisi full-wave di una antenna ibrida per terminali utente”, founded by: PRIN 2003-2004, duration: 24 months.
-     “IKNOS gestIone della qualità attraverso Kpi in reti IP di Nuova generazione multiservizio, multidominio e multivendor Orientate alla Standardizzazione”, founded by MIUR, art. 5 legge 297. 2005-2009, duration: 48 months.
-     “Caratterizzazione elettromagnetica e sistemistica di sensori di campo dielettrici”, founded by: PRIN 2008-2009, duration: 24 mesi.
-    “Il campionamento ad altissima risoluzione dell’Universo in banda radio: uno strumento di indagine senza precedenti per la comprensione delle Leggi fondamentali della Natura”; project Legge Regionale 7 agosto 2007, n. 7, “Promozione della ricerca scientifica e dell’innovazione tecnologica in Sardegna”. Year: 2011. Duration: 36 months.
-    “Smart Domotic Device Supply: alimentazione intelligente per dispositivi domotici”, founded by: Bando INNOVARE - finanziato con il programma operativo P.O.R. FESR 2007-2013 Regione Sardegna – Asse VI Competitività 6.2.1 a. (Bando 2013). Duration: 10 months.
-    "PROGETTO ONDE CHIARE Sistema Integrato per il Censimento degli Impianti Elettromagnetici" Assessorato all'industria -Regione Sardegna - Determinazione RAS n. 33073 rep. N. 684 del 22/12/2014.  CUP  E68C14000200007
-    "Simulazione e progetto di strutture EBG planari di estensione finita"; Project CyberSar, PON 2000-2006. “PON n.746/2 – CYBERSAR”.
-    "Skin-Based Technologies and Capabilities for Safe, Autonomous and Interactive Robots ROBOSKIN” (2010). Project FP7-ICT-2007-3.
-    "Hybrid organic/inorganic memory elements for integration of electronic and photonic circuitry HYMEC” (2011). Project FP7-NMP-2010-SMALL-4.
-    "Valutazione e utilizzo della Genetic Programming nel progetto di strutture a radiofrequenza e microonde", Project Legge Regionale 7/2007 Progetti di ricerca di base (Bando 2008).
-    1/1/2013 - 31/12/2014: participant at the project: “Design of microwave systems and devices” founded by “P.O.R. SARDEGNA FSE 2007-2013”.
-    01/10/2017 - 30/09/2019: participant of the Research Organization (University of Cagliari) for the project: "Development of a Multi Sensor Data Fusion platform for the detection and tracking of space debris" in cooperation with the company Nurjana Technologies Srl. Project founded by POR FESR 2014-2020.
-    01/10/2017 - 30/09/2019: participant of the Research Organization (University of Cagliari) for the project: "Electronic devices for smart clothes” in cooperation with the company St. Remy Confezioni S.R.L. Project founded by POR FESR 2014-2020.
-    01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020: participant of the Research Organization (University of Cagliari) for the project: "API – Smart UAV for environmental monitoring" in cooperation with the company Nurjana Technologies Srl. Project founded by R&S Aerospace program - POR FESR 2014-2020.
-    16/10/2017 – 31/12/2020: participant at the project: “RADARDRONE - Modular radar systems for UAV monitoring”. TOP-DOWN cluster initiative founded by POR Sardegna FESR 2014.
-    01/04/2000 - 27/07/2005: Research contract for third party activities: “Studio e ottimizzazione di elementi in guida d'onda, slot e interazioni per antenne slot array” for Alenia Difesa – Unità Officine Galileo.
-    20/04/2004 - 31/12/2004: Research contract for third party activities: “Studio di sistemi di antenna adattativi per applicazioni Network Radio”, for Marconi Selenia Communications SpA.
-    08/06/2004 - 08/09/2004: Research contract for third party activities: “Analisi e sintesi di array planari di slot in guida d’onda rettangolare”, for MBDA Italia SpA.
-    01/06/2005 - 30/11/2009: Research contract for third party activities: “Progetto di array di slot per antenne GS7”, for Galileo Avionica SpA.
-    01/06/2006 - 01/06/2008: Research contract for third party activities: “Sintesi di array planari di slot in guida d’onda con copertura dielettrica”, founded by: Galileo Avionica SpA.
-    05/02/2007 - 20/09/2008: Research contract for third party activities: “Software per la sintesi e analisi di array con fascio sagomato”, for Galileo Avionica SpA.

Last update: May 2023