Luciano Mescia is Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari. His theoretical and experimental research activities focus on electromagnetic technologies and devices for industrial, biological, optical, and biomedical applications.

He is currently conducting research on additive manufacturing technologies for electromagnetics, phased array antennas based on flexible ultra-light materials and printed RF components, novel dielectric lenses and UWB antennas, and new planar, monopole, spiral, and conformal antennas for 5G, wireless, and e-health applications. His work also includes the development of advanced FDTD algorithms based on fractional calculus, radiation-hardened and rare earth–doped fiber amplifiers and lasers, optical fiber strain and temperature sensors for harsh environments, as well as microwave and pulsed electric field electromagnetic systems for biomedical and food processing applications. Furthermore, he has contributed to the field of evolutionary computation, developing artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and swarm intelligence techniques for solving electromagnetic optimization problems.

Professor Mescia has been involved in several national and international research projects both as coordinator and partner, and he is currently the scientific coordinator of two projects funded by the European Space Agency. His research output includes 85 articles published in indexed international journals, 2 international books, 1 teaching book, 9 chapters in international volumes, 4 editorials in international journals, 96 articles in international conference proceedings, 4 granted international patents, and 2 pending international patents.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine. Since 2006, he has been part of the teaching staff of the PhD program in Electrical and Information Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. He also served as a member of the University Quality Presidium (PQA) and as Process Manager for research quality assessment at Politecnico di Bari. Additionally, he is the Local Academic Coordinator of Politecnico di Bari for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree RADMEP – Radiation and its Effects on MicroElectronics and Photonics Technologies and RADMEP+.

In January 2015, he received the Honorable Mention by the IEEE MTT-S Central-Southern Italy Award 2014. He is a member of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEm).