Vita

Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez (S’15, M’22) received the master’s degrees (Hons.) in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2017. In 2021, he received the Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) in electrical engineering from the TU Darmstadt and the Freunde der TU Darmstadt prize for the best dissertation in electrical engineering. He obtained the Athene Young Investigator award at TU Darmstadt 2023. Since 2026, he holds the chair for microwave Engineering and Communication Technology at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. His current research interests include chipless RFID, electromagnetic bandgap structures, liquid crystal, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.