Distinguished Lecture Series : Reconfigurable Active Transparent Antennas

Mohamed Himdi received his Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 1990. Since 2003, he has been a full Professor with the University of Rennes 1, where he was the Head of the Department of High Frequency and Antennas, IETR, until 2013. He has authored or co-authored 133 journal articles and over 280 papers in conference proceedings. He has also co-authored nine book chapters and a prolific inventor with 40 granted patents. His research activities concern passive and active millimeter-wave antennas. His research interests include the development of new architectures of antenna arrays, and new three-dimensional (3-D) antenna technologies. He was a Laureate of the 2D National Competition for the Creation of Enterprises in Innovative Technologies, in 2000 by the French Ministry of Industry and Education. In March 2015, he received the JEC-AWARD at Paris on Pure composite material antenna embedded into a motorhome roof for the Digital Terrestrial Television reception.