Awards and Recognitions:

• Mingzheng Chen was awarded with the Best Paper in Microwave Technology in the MTTW'23 in Riga (Latvia):
• Title of the contributions: ‘Ray-Tracing Model for Planar Mikaelian Lens Antennas’.

• Pilar Castillo-Tapia and Sarah Clendinning were awarded with the Best Paper Student Award and Best Paper Early Career Award at the ISAP 2022 in Sydney Australia:
• Title of the contributions: ‘Azimuth and Elevation Scanning With Stacked Modulated Geodesic Luneburg Lenses’ and ‘Ray-Tracing Model for Elliptical Half-Geodesic Lens Antenna’.

• Pilar Castillo-Tapia was awarded with the Best Paper Award at the XM3 Metamanterials conference in Exeter, Uk:
• Title of the contribution: ‘Array of stacked geodesic lens antennas’.
• KTH Newsletters.

• One of our contributions to the EuCAP 2022 was selected as best paper in Applied Technology Antenna.
• ‘Planar Glide-Symmetric Dielectric Half-Luneburg Lens at K/Ka Band’, O. Zetterstrom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), P. Castillo-Tapia (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), J.-M. Poyanco (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain), N. J. G. Fonseca (European Space Agency, The Netherlands), F. Pizarro (Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile), O. Quevedo-Teruel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden).
• KTH Newsletters.
• Information about the award at the EuCAP 2022 webpage.

• Oskar Zetterstrom was awarded with the best Young Researcher Paper in the URSI 2020:
• The paper was entitled: "Fully Metallic Fixed Beam Leaky-Wave Antennas with Tailored Radiation Patterns at mm-Waves",

• Our paper on glide symmetries was selected in the Best Paper selection of 2019:
• I was awarded "Teacher of the year 2019" by the Electrical Engineering chapter.
• KTH Interview.

• One of our contributions to the EuCAP 2020 was selected as best paper in Electromagnetics.
• ‘Elliptical Glide-Symmetric Holey Metasurfaces for Wideband Anisotropy’, A. Alex-Amor (Technical University of Madrid, Spain), F. Ghasemifard (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), G. Valerio (Sorbonne Universite, France), Pablo Padilla (Technical University of Madrid, Spain), J. M. Fernandez-Gonzalez (Technical University of Madrid, Spain), O. Quevedo-Teruel (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden).
• Information about the award at EuCAP 2020 webpage.

• Fatemeh Ghasemifard was awarded the “EurAAP Per-Simon Kildal Award”​ for best PhD Thesis in Antennas & Propagation in Europe.
• The Kildal Award at the EuCAP 2020 website.
• KTH did an interview to F. Ghasemifard, Mar 25, 2020.

• Best poster award at the IWAT 2018 conference in Nanjing, China.
• Lei Wang and I, during the award ceremony at the IWAT 2018 in Nanjing, China.

• Second best paper award at the ISAP 2017 conference in Phuket, Thailand.
• "Young Scientist Award" (YSA) of the Commission B of the "International Union of Radio Science" (URSI) to attend to the "2013 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory" (EMTS 2013).
• Best poster prize at the IET Transformation Optics Seminar, Savoy Place, London 26th October 2012.
• Raj Mittra Travel Grant for Junior Researchers 2012. This Grant supports travelling expenses to only one young doctoral scientist every year to attend the joint IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting. This is the most important Conference on Antennas and Propagation, and that year it was held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 8-14th, 2012. The awardee's selection is primarily based upon the candidate's potential or demonstrated aptitude for research, and it is one of the most prestigious awards which a Junior Researcher on Antenna and Propagation can obtain.
• Awardee of a Post-doctoral fellowship in Department of Theoretical Physics of Condensed Matter at Autonomous University of Madrid. This position was obtained in a National selection process for all the fields of four Spanish universities (Alianza 4 Universidades program).
• National Award Arquimedes to the best supervisor of M.Sc. theses in Engineering and Architecture 2010 all over Spain.
• Carlos III University of Madrid Award of Excellence 2010 to the best professional career of former students who obtained the university degree from February 2004 to November 2006.
• Nominated for the Wiley prize for the best poster in Metamaterial Theory and Modelling in 4th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Karlsruhe (Germany). September 2010.
• IET Antennas & Propagation Network Prize for the best poster in the field of metamaterial applications in antennas, in the 3rd International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, London, UK, Aug 30th-Sept 4th, 2009.
• Best Paper Award in Loughborough International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, April 2007.

GRID: Second place of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2017 student contest on Cubesat antennas

• Harald Hultin, Jonas Olsson and Fernando Franzen, supervised by Fatemeh Ghasemifard , Mykola Ivchenko and myself, won the second prize in the undergraduate contest at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2017 in San Diego.
  

• Link to article at EES-KTH

  

Trielectric: Winners of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation 2016 student contest on Harvesting

• Oskar Björkqvist, Oskar Dahlberg and Gustaf Silver, led by Christos Kolitsidas and co-supervised by myself, won the first award in the undergraduate contest at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2016 in Puerto Rico.
  

• Link to article at EES-KTH