Claudio GENNARELLI | Curriculum

Claudio Gennarelli was born in Avellino, Italy, in 1953. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Naples, Italy, in 1978. From 1978 to 1983, he worked with the Research Group in Electromagnetics at the Electronic Engineering Department of the University “Federico II” of Naples. In 1983, he became Assistant Professor at the Istituto Universitario Navale (IUN), Naples. In 1987, he was appointed Associate Professor of Antennas, formerly at the Engineering Faculty of Ancona University and subsequently at the Engineering Faculty of Salerno University. In 1999, he has been appointed Full Professor at the same University. Dr. Gennarelli is co-author of over 420 scientific papers, mainly in international journals and conference proceedings. In particular, he is co-author of four books on NF–FF transformation techniques and co-author of the chapter “Near-field antenna measurement techniques” of the Handbook of Antenna Technologies. His papers have received over 2250 citations with h-index of 26 according to Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003785247). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 2002 and member of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation. He has also been member of the Editorial board of the Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal from 2007 to 2019.

Dr. Gennarelli has been lead guest editor of the special issue on Recent Advances in Near-Field to Far-Field Transformation Techniques of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation and editor of several special issues of the journal Atti della Fondazione “Giorgio Ronchi”.

He has been reviewer for several international journal and conferences.

Dr. Gennarelli has also received several international awards for his conference papers and the Certificate of Appreciation by the IEEE Standard Association for outstanding contributions to the development of IEEE Standard 1720-2012.

The main topics of his scientific activity can be grouped in electromagnetic scattering related topics and antenna related topics.

The electromagnetic scattering related topics have been: Radar cross section evaluation of perfectly conducting targets; Uniform asymptotic evaluation of diffraction integrals; Scattering from randomly rough surfaces; Radar cross section evaluation of dihedral corner reflectors; Scattering by half planes and wedges with isotropically or anisotropi­cally loaded faces; Radar cross section evaluation of trihedral corner reflectors with per­fectly conducting faces; Radar cross section evaluation of trihedral corner reflectors with one or more nonperfectly conducting faces; Complex permittivity evaluation of lossy di­electrics through free-space measurements; Scattering by edges in penetrable structures; Backscattering by dihedral corner reflectors with surface deformation; Radar cross sec­tion evaluation of a Bruderhedral reflector; Time domain scattering by edges; Diffraction by structures in urban and/or automotive environments.

The antenna related topics have been: Flanged parabolic antennas; Measurement distance effects on antenna pattern measurements; Near-field–far-field (NF-FF) transformation techniques; Electromagnetic field interpolation from uniformly spaced samples; Elec­tromagnetic field reconstruction from nonuniformly spaced samples; Efficient interpola­tion of stochastic electromagnetic fields; Nonredundant sampling representations of radi­ated electromagnetic fields; Nonredundant NF-FF transformation techniques; Optimiza­tion of the current integration method for parabolic reflector antennas; Sampling rep­resentation of electromagnetic fields in three-dimensional domains; Electromagnetic field reconstruction from a minimum number of irregularly distributed samples; NF-FF trans­formation techniques from nonuniformly distributed data; NF-FF transformation tech­niques with spiral scannings; Synthesis of arrays with null-field constraints in the near-field region; Closed form evaluation of the antenna directivity via sampling expansion; Evaluation of the antenna directivity from near-field measurements; Analysis of reflectar­rays; Estimation of data external to the scanning region in near-field measurements; Ex­perimental validation of the nonredundant NF-FF transformation techniques; Experi­mental validation of the NF-FF transformation techniques with spiral scannings; Compen­sation of the probe positioning errors in the NF-FF transformation with helicoidal scan­ning; NF-FF transformation with helicoidal scanning for aperture antennas; Nonredun­dant sampling representations over a plane in the time domain from bi-polar or PWMS NF data; NF-FF transformations with spherical or spherical spiral scanning for offset mounted antennas.