John L. Volakis was born in Chios, Greece in 1956 and immigrated to the U.S.A. in
1973. He obtained his B.E. Degree in 1978 from Youngstown State Univ.,
the M.Sc. in 1979 from the Ohio State University, and the Ph.D. degree in 1982,
also from Ohio State. He is the Director of the Ohio State University
ElectroScience Laboratory
and the Chope Chair Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering. From 1984-2003 he was on the faculty of the
University of
Michigan-Ann Arbor, College of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. He also served as the Director of
the University of Michigan Radiation Laboratory for 1998-2000. From 1982-1984
he was with Rockwell International, Aircraft Division (now Boeing
Phantom works) and from 1978-1982 he was a Graduate Research Associate
at the Ohio State ElectroScience Lab. His research has covered
antennas, radar scattering and diffraction methods, wireless
communication, RF propagation, electromagnetic compatibility and
interference, bioelectromagnetics, and MEMS multiphysics design.
Over the past decade his research has entailed collaboration with
faculty in the Material Science, Mechanical, Biomedical, Aerospace and
Applied Mathematics Departments on multidisciplinary projects. During
the past 20 years, Prof. Volakis graduated over 30 Ph.D. students,
mentored 10 post-docs and published over 220 articles in major
refereed journal articles. He has also published more than 260
conference papers, several book chapters and co-authored two books:
Approximate Boundary Conditions in
Electromagnetics (Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1995)
and Finite
Element Method for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press, 1998). In
1998 he received the University of Michigan College of Engineering
Research Excellence award and in 2001 he received his department's
Service Excellence award. Prof. Volakis was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and has
served on the editorial board of several journals. He was the 2004
President of the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Society and serves as the Technical Chair
of the Int. Radio Science
Union (URSI). He was the 1993 IEEE AP-S symposium general chair,
held in Ann Arbor, MI and the co-chair of the same symposium held in
Columbus in 2003.
