Dr. Rafael Gonçalves Licursi de Mello was born in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Sciences from the Air Force Academy, Pirassununga-SP, Brazil, in 2007; his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil, in 2018; and his Ph.D. degree from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France, in 2022. Dr. Rafael Licursi is currently working on the application of reconfigurable metasurfaces in electronic warfare. He is also interested in wideband and multiband antennas, digital signal processing, and software-defined radio applied to equipment that is light enough to embed small platforms, such as satellites and drones.