HAMZA KAOUACH received the M.S. degree in high frequency communications systems from the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, in 2006 and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 2009. His Ph.D. studies were partially financed by the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission CEA Grenoble and the French Government Space Agency CNES Toulouse, France. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Research Engineer at CEA-Léti, Grenoble, France. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Antenna and RF Engineer in industries at PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, Paris, France. From July 2012 to August 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at the Umm Al-Qura University, College of Engineering at Al-Lith (CEL), Electronic and Communications Engineering Department, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. From August 2015 to August 2017, he was also an Associate researcher at LATIS, National Engineering School of Sousse, Tunisia. From September 2017, he is an Associate Professor (MCF, HDR 2025) with the Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse (INP/N7) and LAPLACE laboratory, University of Toulouse His current research interests include quasi-optic reconfigurable antennas, antenna arrays, optical control of reconfigurable antennas, transmit-arrays at millimeter-wave frequencies, frequency selective surfaces, measurement antennas, electromagnetic reverberation chamber (RVC, MSC), metamaterial and numerical modeling (FDTD).