2025 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award goes to one of the Politecnico’s professors

Professor Roberto Graglia of the Department of Electronics and Communications-DET at Politecnico has received the 2025 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award. “For seminal contributions to the development of higher-order methods and singular basis functions for computational electromagnetics and for service to the electromagnetics community”, as written in the official motivation for the award. 

This Achievement Award recognizes professor Graglia's fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of integral equations, differential equations, and asymptotic methods in electromagnetics, as well as his development of higher order (HO) interpolatory or hierarchical vector bases now used both in academia as well as in industry. Most commercial solvers leverage some version of his interpolatory or hierarchical bases to deliver the accuracy needed for single pass design work. 

Roberto Graglia has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Politecnico since 1999. He has authored over 220 publications in international scientific journals and symposia proceedings. Since 1997, he has been a Member of the editorial board of “Electromagnetics” and has been an editor of multiple IEEE scientific journals and reviewer of many other international scientific journals. He served the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) for the triennial International Symposia on Electromagnetic Theory. Since 1999, he has been the General Chairperson of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), and, since 2011, he has been the General Chairperson of the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (IEEE-APWC). Prof. Graglia was the 2015 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), serving for nine years in the IEEE AP-S Administrative Committee. He is an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer, Life Fellow of the IEEE since 1998, and recipient of the 2021 Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics. 

This IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award is the most prestigious Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagations Society, that counts roughly 13,000 members worldwide. This award was established in 1985 by the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) to honor outstanding technical achievement in the fields of Antennas and Propagation. The award will be presented to Professor Graglia at the IEEE AP-S flagship Symposium, to be held in July 2025 in Ottawa, Canada.