Marco FAENZI was born in Siena, Italy. He received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering (with a score of 110/110) from the Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics at University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2011. In the same year he won a Ph.D. position at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Siena, focused on development of high gain apertures for space applications based on modulated metasurface structures realized by inductive or capacitive textures. He successively gained the Ph.D. degree in 2015. In 2015 he won a co-financed Post-Doc grant in the Networking/Partnering Initiative framework by the European Space Agency and University of Siena. In 2016 he was co-recipient of the Sergei A. Schelkunoff Transactions Prize Paper Award by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He is currently working as  Post-Doc researcher at the IETR (Institut d’Électronique et de Télécommunications) of Rennes, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France. He has worked on metasurfaces holographic patterning for the optimization of aperture efficiency of dipoles excited planar resonator. During his Post-Doc activity he worked towards characterization, optimization and synthesis of modulated metasurface apertures for of multi-frequency and broadband operativity. He also worked toward application of metasurface technology for implementation multibeam and highly efficient monopulse apertures in linear and circular polarization.

Antennas, metasurfaces, leaky waves, monopulse radar, broadband apertures