Lorenzo Rosa was born in Parma, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Parma, Italy, where he received the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology in 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, until 2010, and at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, until 2014, working on fiber and integrated optics, genetic algorithms, plasmonics, nano-antennas, solar cells, photocatalysis, and Raman sensing. He was then with the Atos company in Madrid, Spain, working in the Electronic Identity and Privacy Lab. In 2017, he became Assistant Professor at the University of Modena, Italy, where he was appointed Associate Professor of Electromagnetics in 2024. His research interests include numerical methods for electromagnetics, photonic-crystal fibers, amplifiers and lasers, plasmonics, car antennas, and radars.