John VolakisJohn L. Volakis is the Dean of Engineering and Computing and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL. A native of Chios, Greece, Prof. Volakis obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio StateUniversity in 1982. Prior to becoming a Dean at FIU, he was a Professor at The University of Michigan (1984-2003) and The Ohio State University (2003-2017). His publications include 8 widely used books, over 400 journal papers and nearly 800 conference papers.


In addition to the 4th Ed. Antenna Engineering Handbook, his other books include Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (IEE Press), Finite Element Method for Electromagnetics (IEEE Press-Wiley), and Frequency Domain Hybrid Finite Element Methods in Electromagnetics (Morgan & Claypool), Computational Methods for High Frequency Electromagnetic Interference (Verlag, 2009), Small Antennas: Miniaturization Techniques (McGraw Hill, 2010), Polymer-Ceramic Composites for Comformal Multilayer Antenna/RF Systems (LAP Lambert, 2010), Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetics (Scitech Publishing, 2012).


Dr. Volakis is a Fellow of IEEE, and a former President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, and Chair of the USNC National Radio Science Union. He graduated/mentored nearly 90 Ph.D. students/post-docs, and was listed by ISI in 2004 among the top 250 most referenced authors in Engineering/Computer Science. Among his awards, he is the recipient of The Univ. of Michigan College of Engineering Research Excellence award (1993), The Ohio State Univ. Distinguished Scholar Award (2016) and the IEEE APS Distinguished Achievement award (2015).

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