Biography
Marco Di Renzo received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, and the Head of the Telecommunications Group, Department of Engineering, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. He is also a CNRS Research Director (Professor) with the Institute of Electronics and Digital Technologies (IETR) at CNRS \& CentraleSup\’elec – Univ. Paris-Saclay, Rennes, France. He was a France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at the University of Oulu (Finland), a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellow in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), a Fulbright Fellow at The City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalto University (Finland), and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast (U.K.). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, RSA, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Ordinary Member of the Italian Academy of Technology and Engineering; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. He has received several distinctions, including the Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, and the IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Also, he is a principal investigator of an ERC Synergy grant on metasurface-based information processing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters from 2019 to 2023, and as the Director of Journals and Chair of the Publications Misconduct Ad Hoc Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 2024 to 2025. Currently, he sits on the IEEE-COMSOC Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee and on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE.
