Luca Catarinucci is Associate Professor in Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. He received the Laurea degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the University of Perugia Italy, in 1998. Between 1999 and 2001, he was with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Rome, Italy, for the implementation of electromagnetic tools on massively parallel architectures. Since 2003, he has been with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, where he has been Assistant Professor of electromagnetic fields and Aggregate Professor of ¡°Microwaves¡± with the Department of Innovation Engineering until August 2015. He authored more than 50 papers published in international journals, more than 70 papers appeared on conference proceedings, and 4 chapters of books with international diffusion. He was a co-inventor of 2 patents.

His first research activity dealt with the implementation of high-performance electromagnetic simulation tools in the finite-difference time-domain analysis of human¨Cantenna interaction and in the electromagnetic characterization of heterogeneous materials. Further contribution deals with time-domain reflectometry for the qualitative and quantitative characterization of fluids, including olive oil, and design and implementation of novel and accurate algorithms for the evaluation of the specific absorption rate in biological tissues exposed to electromagnetic fields. Moreover, he is strongly involved in activities related to radio-frequency identification (RFID) and he is responsible of the RFID Division of the Electromagnetic Lab. His activities range from antenna and system design, integration between sensors and RFID tags, RFID-based robot navigation, new techniques for tag characterization, optimization, and design and, finally, tag prototyping methods. In such a context, it is worth mentioning the strong effort dedicated to the integration of RFID systems with sensor networks, with the realization of a ¡°multisensor RFID tag for biomedical application¡± (Patented), capable to transmit the sensor data measured by a generic sensor along with the classical ID code. Moreover, in the same context, quite interesting are the lately developed fully-passive RFID platforms, conjugating RFID, sensors, memorization and computation capability.

He is editor of important international journals, such as International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (hindawii), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (indawii), and Journal of Advanced Internet of Things (Columbia International). He has also been organizer of many International conference. Among the others, he has been TPC Officer of IEEE EuMW 2014, the largest European conference on Microwaves, and TPC Chair of IEEE MMS 2015 (Mediterranean Microwave Symposium).