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Mohammad Alibakhshikenari

Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Islamic Azad University of Najafabad

Research areas: Engineering · Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Antenna Design and Analysis · Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies · Microwave Engineering and Waveguides

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8263-1572
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Mohammad Alibakhshikenari (Member, IEEE) was born in Mazandaran, Iran, in February 1988. He received the Ph.D. degree with the European label and Excellent Cum Laude in electronics engineering from the University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’ (UNITOV), Italy, in February 2020. From May 2018 to December 2018, he was a Ph.D. Visiting Researcher with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His training during this visit included a research stage at Swedish Company “Gap Waves AB.” During his Ph.D. (Nov. 2016 – Feb. 2020), he was recognized as the winner of 13 grants for attending the Doctoral Schools organized by ESoA (European School of Antennas, 5), EUPROMETA (European Doctoral Programmes in Metamaterials, 3), EuMC (European Microwave Conference, 2), SIE (Società Italiana di Elettronica - Italian Society of Electronics, 1), ITMO University (Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, 1), Aix-Marseille Université (Metamaterials, 1), which were held in various European universities. He successfully achieved all 30 credits provided by Doctoral Schools leading him to obtain his Ph.D. degree with European label.
He is now a Marie Sklodowska-Curie, ROSETTA, and LERO (the Research Ireland Centre for Software) Fellow at the University of Galway, Ireland. As part of this fellowship, he had five research visits at the Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA, October 2025); Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain (October 2025); Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan (November 2025); Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea (December 2025); and Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea (December 2025).
In November 2019, he was winner of a postdoctoral research fund for two years awarded by UNITOV. From July 2021 to August 2024, he was with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (uc3m), Spain, as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie and CONEX-Plus Fellow. During this Program he has spent two secondments at the: 1) Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA), Rome, Italy, from April to August 2024, and 2) SARAS Technology Ltd., Company, Leeds, U.K., from December 2022 to May 2023. In addition, during this program he had one-week research visits at the: 1) University of Catania, Italy, in May 2024, along with an invited lecture entitled ‘‘Terahertz Antennas based on Metasurface and SIW’’ for the master’s and Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers; 2) University of Messina, Italy, in May 2024; 3) University of Bradford, U.K., in May 2023; and 4) Edinburgh Napier University, U.K., in April 2023. For academic year 2021 and 2022, he received the “Teaching Excellent Acknowledgement” certificate for the course of “electromagnetic fields” from the Vice-Rector of studies of UC3M. From September 2024 to June 2025, he was with UNITOV as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include “Electromagnetic fields, antennas and wave-propagations, metamaterials and metasurfaces, RF and microwave technologies, sensors, wireless communications, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, millimeter-waves and terahertz integrated circuits, gap waveguide technology, and beamforming networks”. His research activity is documented in about 200 papers published in international journals, 1 book, 9 book chapters, and about 110 papers in proceedings of international conferences including 49 in-person presentations in 31 conferences and 27 on-line presentations in 13 conferences. His research works received more than 8800 citations with H-index above 58 reported by Scopus, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. According to Stanford University yearly analysis, he has been among the World’s Top 2% Scientists of highly cited scientific authors, since 2020. He was listed in both Career Long and Single Year Impact in Stanford’s list. He was a recipient of the two young engineer awards of the 47th and 48th European Microwave Conferences held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2017, and in Madrid, Spain, in 2018, respectively. In April 2020, his research article entitled ‘‘High-Gain Metasurface in Polyimide On-Chip Antenna Based on CRLH-TL for Sub Terahertz Integrated Circuits, Scientific Reports, volume 10, Article number 4298 (2020)’’ was awarded as the Best Month Paper at the University of Bradford, U.K. In addition, he serves the role of an Associate Editor for two scientific journals of Radio Science and The Journal of Engineering (IET). He acts as a referee in several journals, and the technical program committee (TPC) and session chair of several international conferences. In addition, he is member of the reviewer panel of Dutch Research Council (NWO); U.K. Research and Innovation (UKRI) Funding Service; IEEE MTT-S Education Committee Fellowships and Scholarships; and the External Examiner of several Ph.D. dissertations from various worldwide universities.

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  • Enhancing the Quality of Millimeter-Wave Satellite Communications by Space Multiplexing and Innovative Beamforming Matrices Using Gap-Waveguide Technology Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway
    2025 - 2027
  • Miniaturized antenna designs for space and satellite connectivity University of Rome Tor Vergata
    2024 - 2025
  • Innovative antenna systems based on the use of metamaterials and metasurfaces Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    2021 - 2024
  • Metamaterial and Metasurface Applications to Antenna Systems University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
    2020 - 2021
  • International Postgraduate Research (Ph.D.) Scholarship University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
    2016 - 2020

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