Luciano Tarricone (SM’10–F’21) is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. He graduated summa cum laude in 1989 at Rome “La Sapienza” University, Italy, and received the PhD in the same university in 1993. He was a Research Fellow at the Italian National Institute of Health in 1990, and a researcher for IBM and IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing between 1990 and 1994. He was a Researcher and Professore Incaricato at the University of Perugia, Italy (1994-2001) and an Associate Professor (2002-2011) at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, where he has been a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields since 2011. In the same university he founded the EM Group and the EM Labs.
He was the General TPC Chair for European Microwave Week in 2014, and Vice General Chair in 2022. He was the General Chair of MEMSWave 2010. He is a member of IEEE MTTS TC 25, 26 and 28. He coordinates the Topical Group on EM Biomedical Applications in the European MW Association. He is the IEEE APS/MTTS Chapter Chair for Central and Southern Italy, and MTTS Region 8 Coordinator.
His scientific interests deal with bioelectromagnetics, biomedical applications, Wireless Power Transfer, RF technologies for the IoT, numerical and parallel EM techniques. He has published more than 480 scientific papers, authored or edited several books, and holds several patents.
He has been elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021, and was awarded as Alfiere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic.