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Marco Mercuri was born in Calabria,
Italy in 1985. He received the B.S. and
M.S. degrees in electronic engineering
from the University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2015. He is
currently Senior Researcher at imec - Netherlands, Eindhoven, Netherlands. His research interests include microwave/RF radar systems and algorithms, contactless
health monitoring, biomedical applications, embedded
systems and wireless sensor networks. Dr. Mercuri is
the author and co-author of over 50 publications in peerreviewed journals, conferences, and books. He holds
several patents on radars for biomedical applications.
He was the recipient of the ISSCC 2019 Demonstration
Session Certificate of Recognition, 2013 IEEE MTT-S
Graduate Fellowship Award, and he obtained the second
place both to the 2013 IEEE President's Change the World
Competition (PCW) and to the 2013 IEEE MTT-S YouTube/YouKu Video Competition.
Prof. Dominique S chreur s ( S ' 9 0 M'97-SM'02-F'12) received the M.Sc.
degree in electronic engineering and the
Ph.D. degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, in
1992 and 1997, respectively. She has
been a Visiting Scientist with Agilent Technologies, Santa
Rosa, CA, USA, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, and the
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder,
CO, USA. She is currently a Full Professor with KU Leuven,
where she is also the Chair of the Leuven LICT. Her current research interests include the microwave and millimeter-wave characterization and modeling of transistors,
nonlinear circuits, and bioliquids, and system design for
wireless communications and biomedical applications.
Prof. Schreurs served as President of the IEEE Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society (April 2018-2019), and
priory was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques as well as IEEE MTT-S
Distinguished Microwave Lecturer. She also served as
President of the ARFTG organization (2018-2019) and was
General Chair of the 2007, 2012, and 2018 Spring ARFTG
Conferences. In 2020, she serves as TPC chair of the European Microwave Conference (EuMC) and is also conference co-chair of the IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC).
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