Guest editorial fo the special issue on multifunction antennas and antenna systems

TY - JOUR

T1 - Guest editorial fo the special issue on multifunction antennas and antenna systems

AU - Papapolymerou, John

AU - Bernhard, Jennifer T.

N1 - Funding Information: Jennifer T. Bernhard (S’89–M’95–SM’01) was born on May 1, 1966, in New Hartford, NY. She received the B.S.E.E. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988,. While at Cornell, she was a McMullen Dean’s Scholar and participated in the Engineering Co-op Program, working at IBM Federal Systems Division in Owego, New York. She received the the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 1990 and 1994, respectively, with support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. During the 1994–95, academic year she held the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Departments of Radiation Oncology and Electrical Engineering, Duke University, where she developed RF and microwave circuitry for simultaneous hyperthermia (treatment of cancer with microwaves) and magnetic resonance imaging thermometry. At Duke, she was also an orga-nizing member of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Project, a graduate student-run organization designed to improve the climate for graduate women in engineering and the sciences. From 1995 to 1999, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Hampshire, Durham, where she held the Class of 1944 Professorship. In 1999 and 2000, she was a National Aeronautics and Space Administration-American Society for Engineering Education (NASA-ASEE) Summer Faculty Fellow at the NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH. From 1999 to 2003, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where since 2003, she has held the position of Associate Professor. She is also a UIUC College of Engineering Willett Faculty Scholar and a Research Associate Professor in UIUC’s Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Her industrial experience includes work as a Research Engineer with Avnet Development Laboratories and, more recently, as a private consultant for members of the wireless communication and sensors community. She is also a member of the editorial board of Smart Structures and Systems. Her research interests include reconfigurable and wideband microwave antennas and circuits, wireless sensors and sensor networks, high speed wireless data communication, electromagnetic compatibility, and electromagnetics for industrial, agricultural, and medical applications. Prof. Bernhard is a Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, ASEE, and URSI Commissions B and D. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2000. She and her students received the 2004 H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society for their paper published in the March 2003 issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. From 2001 to 2005, she served as an Associate Editor for IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS. Since 2001, she has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION. She is serving as an Elected Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Administrative Committee from 2004 to 2006. Funding Information: Dr. Papapolymerou received the 2004 Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, the 2002 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the best paper award at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology (ICMMT2002), Beijing, China and the 1997 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructional Assistant Award presented by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), The University of Michigan Chapter. His student also received the best student paper award at the 2004 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, Atlanta, GA.

PY - 2006/2

Y1 - 2006/2

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U2 - 10.1109/TAP.2006.870155

DO - 10.1109/TAP.2006.870155

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:32444435969

SN - 0018-926X

VL - 54

SP - 314

EP - 316

JO - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

JF - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

IS - 2

ER -