Francesca Vipiana

Francesca Vipiana is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Polytechnic University of Turin (POLITO). She is also a member of the Interdepartmental Center PolitoBIOMed Lab - Biomedical Engineering Lab. With over 20 years of full-time research experience, Prof. Vipiana has established herself as a leading expert in computational electromagnetics and microwave imaging systems.

Her research interests span antenna design, computational electromagnetics, microwave imaging for medical applications, and food safety/security monitoring. She has pioneered work in numerical techniques based on integral equations and method of moments, with particular focus on multiresolution and hierarchical schemes, domain decomposition, and advanced integration methods.

Prof. Vipiana's recent publications show a strong trend toward medical diagnostics using microwave technology, particularly for Alzheimer's disease detection and brain stroke imaging. Her work increasingly integrates machine learning with electromagnetic sensing, and she has developed portable, low-cost microwave imaging systems using off-the-shelf components.

• Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award (2017)
• URSI Young Scientist Award (2005)
• IEEE WiEM best poster award (2009)
• ISMB Best Paper Award (2011)

Prof. Vipiana serves as Principal Investigator for multiple significant research projects including the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action EMERALD, the Proof of Concept FastFood project, and the national PRIN project BEST-Food. She currently supervises 13 PhD students working on diverse topics from microwave brain imaging to glide-symmetric metamaterials. As an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, she plays a key role in advancing the field. Her research group focuses on bridging theoretical electromagnetics with practical applications in healthcare and food safety.