The Spirit of ROACH

Ramiro Serra received the MSc degree in electronic engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2000, the postgraduate degree specializing in technological applications of nuclear energy from Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina in 2004 and the PhD degree in electronics and communications engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2009. He is currently an associate professor within the Laboratory of EMC at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and the program director of the electrical engineering department at TU/e. Dr. Serra is a member and the vice-chair of the international steering committee of EMC Europe and a member of the international TPC of EMC Compo. He is the chairman of URSI Commission E for the Netherlands and secretary of URSI National Committee of the Netherlands. He is also co-convener of the SC 77B/CISPR-A joint working group for the standard IEC 61000-4-21 on reverberation chambers. 

Davide Micheli was born in Ancona, Italy, in 1967. He received the “Dottore Ingegnere” degree in electronics engineering from the University of Ancona (now the Università Politecnica delle Marche), in 2001, and the master’s degree in astronautic engineering and Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from the “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. In 2014, He obtains the national scientific qualification as a university professor in Aerospace Engineering. He is currently with the Department of Wireless Access Engineering, Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy. He is involved in 2G, to 5G radio access network parameterization and optimization. In recent years, He began to examine in depth the Machine Learning techniques on the electromagnetic statistical data available in the radio access network. He is also the author of numerous scientific articles in international journals

Valter Mariani Primiani received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy, in 1990. He is currently Full Professor in Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. He is member of the Department of Information Engineering, where he is also responsible for the EMC Laboratory. His research interests include the prediction of digital printed circuit board radiation, the radiation from apertures, the electrostatic discharge coupling effects modeling, and the analysis of emission and immunity test methods. Since 2003, he has been also involved in research activities on the application of reverberation chambers for compliance testing, metrology applications and multipath propagation emulation. Prof. Mariani Primiani has been a Member of the COST Action 1407 ACCREDIT on the characterization of stochastic emissions from digital equipment. He is senior member of the IEEE (EMC society) and a member of the Italian Society of Electromagnetics. From 2007, he is or was an active member of some Working Groups for the development of IEEE Standards: 299.1, 1302, 2715, and 2716 on shielding effectiveness measurements. Since 2014, he has been a member of the International Steering Committee of EMC Europe. Since 2017, he has been the Chair of the working group for the IEEE Standard 2718 for the characterization of stochastic emissions. He was involved in the European project RISE-6G on the using of Reconfigurable Intelligent Sustainable Environments for 6G Wireless Networks. He is currently involved in the Doctoral Network MSCA 2022 “NEPIT” as responsible for the Ancona Unit. He is the Italian member of the Joint Task Force CISPR/A/SC77B on Reverberation chambers. He is Associate Editor of the journal IET Science, Measurement & Technology.

Alfredo de Leo was born in Bari, Italy, in 1975. He received the Graduate degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetism and bioengineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, in 1999 and 2014, respectively. He is currently with Università Politecnica delle Marche, where he teaches “Industrial Application of Electromagnetic Fields” and “Electrical Systems for Renewable Energy”. His current research interests include the development of electromagnetic models, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulation techniques related to interactions between electromagnetic fields and biological beings, and remote sensing of physiological activities and reverberation chambers. He is a member of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (IEEE Senior Member), the Italian Society of Electromagnetics (SIEM), and Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT). He is an Expert Member of IET TC 77/JMT MU Technical Committee No. 77: Electromagnetic Compatibility JMT MU: Measurement Uncertainty and CEI Technical Subcommittees SC210/7713 and SC 210/A.

Carlo F. M. Carobbi was born in Pistoia, Italy. He received the M.S. (cum laude) degree in electronic
engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Telematics from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Since 2001, he has been a Researcher in the Department of Information Engineering (formerly Department
of Electronics and Telecommunications), University of Florence, where he is presently an Associate Professor of electrical and electronic measurements. His current research interests are mainly devoted to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) measurements, and to the evaluation of EMC measurement uncertainty.
Carlo is the convenor of the IEC TC 77 and CISPR A joint working group on Measurement Uncertainty (JWG MU), dealing with the development of the IEC TS 61000-1-6. He is also member of the IEC TC 77/SC 77 B maintenance team 12 (MT 12), which deals with the maintenance of the IEC standards on immunity to impulse phenomena. In 2015 he received the 1906 Award from the IEC for his contribution to the standardization in the field of EMC. Carlo is Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of URSI and Chair of URSI Commission E.

Angelo Gifuni (M’10) received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in nautical science from the University of Naples “Parthenope,” Napoli, Italy, in 1998. He is currently the Head of the Experimental Electromagnetism Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Naples “Parthenope,” where he has taken part in various research projects, mainly in the fields of microwave measurements and electromagnetic compatibility. His research interests include work on reverberation chambers, EMC, microwave measurement techniques, and electromagnetic shielding.

He is a reviewer for several international journals.

Jens Medler joined Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany, a company specialising in test equipment and radio equipment in 1996. He is responsible for the standardization and application support for the companies EMC test equipment and is active member of various CISPR Subcommittees since 1999. He also holds a Senior membership in the IEEE EMC Society and is acting vice chair of the societies Standards Development and Education Committee.

His CISPR activities include CIS/A on EMC measurement instrumentation and methods, CIS/D on equipment on vehicles and internal combustion engine powered devices and CIS/I on information technology equipment, multimedia equipment and receivers. Since October 2017 he is acting as convenor of CIS/A WG2; the CISPR Working Group on EMC measurement methods, statistical techniques and uncertainty. He is recipient of the IEC 1906 Award and the IEEE EMCS Technical Achievement Award.

Martin joined Mercedes-Benz research and development in 1999. Since then he is actively involved in the specification of company EMC requirements and standardization of EMC test methods
in ISO TC22/SC32/WG3, CISPR/D and national mirror committees. Currently he focuses on reverberation chamber test methods and simulation technologies for automotive application at full vehicle level.

Franco Moglie is an Associate Professor at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, where he has served as a faculty member since 1986. He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering (1986) and a Ph.D. in Electromagnetics (1992).

His research focuses on electromagnetic numerical techniques, specifically the application of reverberation chambers for compliance testing, metrology, and multipath propagation. Professor Moglie’s international experience includes a tenure as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland (2011). He has led three PRACE high-performance computing projects and served as the Scientific Manager for CNIT in the RISE-6G project.

An active contributor to international standards, he participates in several IEEE Standards Working Groups and serves as Secretary for IEEE Std 2718. He is a member of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society and the Italian Electromagnetics Society. His academic excellence is reflected in his recognition as a Distinguished Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on EMC (2013) and his inclusion in Elsevier’s "World's Top 2% Scientist" list for last years.