BATTAGLIA Giada Maria

Dr. Giada Maria Battaglia is a Temporary Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Electromagnetic Fields (IINF-02/A) at the Department of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Engineering, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Since 2023, she has been involved in the national RESTART project, within Spoke 7 “Green and Smart Environments”, where she works on the inverse design of electromagnetic devices based on metamaterials and metasurfaces. She received her Ph.D. in Information Engineering, curriculum in Electromagnetics, in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Isernia, after earning both her B.Sc. in Information Engineering and her M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with highest honors from the same university. From 2021 to 2023 she held a postdoctoral research position, focusing on optimal antenna synthesis and on focused, shaped, and reconfigurable fields; she also gained industrial experience as a Software Development Engineer at Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A. Her research activity lies in applied and computational electromagnetics, with particular emphasis on antenna synthesis, inverse source problems, phase retrieval, near-field and far-field shaping, reconfigurable arrays, monopulse radar antennas, electromagnetic diagnostics, and inverse design methods for smart electromagnetic devices, metasurfaces, and metagratings. She is author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications and has presented her work at several national and international conferences. Her achievements have been recognized through several awards, including the SIEM Best Paper Award for Ph.D. students in 2019, the Latmiral Award in 2022, the Mojgan Daneshmand Award in 2025, and an Honorary Mention at the 2025 URSI Italian National Committee Annual Meeting. She has been involved in academic teaching since 2017, serves as Associate Editor for international journals, and is a member of IEEE, SIEM, and CNIT. She contributes to several public engagement activities.