Prof. Ferran Martin

Ferran Martin (full professor) was born in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, Spain, in 1965. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree in 1992. From 1994 to 2006, he was an Associate Professor of Electronics at the Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Since 2007, he has been a full professor of electronics. In recent years, he has been involved in different research activities including modeling and simulation of electron devices for high-frequency applications, millimeter wave and THz generation systems, and the application of electromagnetic bandgaps to microwave and millimeter wave circuits. He is very active in the field of metamaterials and their application to the miniaturization and optimization of microwave circuits and antennas. Other topics of interests include microwave sensors and RFID systems, with a special emphasis on the development of high-data-capacity chipless RFID tags. He is the head of the Microwave Engineering, Metamaterials, and Antennas Group (GEMMA Group) at UAB, and the Director of CIMITEC, a Research Center on Metamaterials supported by TECNIO (Generalitat de Catalunya). He is fellow of the IEEE and fellow of the IET. Among his distinctions, he has received the 2006 Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research, holds the Parc de Recerca UAB – Santander Technology Transfer Chair, and has been the recipient of three ICREA ACADEMIA Awards.