Rate My Professor Christophe Fumeaux

Professor Christophe Fumeaux received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Optics at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. In 2000, he joined the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology, Bern, Switzerland, as a Scientific Staff Member. From 2001 to 2008, he served as a Research Associate and Lecturer with the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics at ETH Zurich. He was a Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia, from 2008 to 2023. Since 2023, he has held the position of EOS Chair Professor in Optical and Microwave Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland. His research interests encompass applied electromagnetics, antenna engineering, and the application of RF design principles across the electromagnetic spectrum. These include wideband antennas, reconfigurable antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, terahertz antennas, wearable textile antennas, metamaterials and metasurfaces for terahertz applications, substrate-integrated waveguide technologies, finite-volume time-domain methods for electromagnetic modeling, terahertz sensing and communications, leaky-wave antennas, and phase shifters for microwave and millimeter-wave applications.

Professor Fumeaux received the ETH Medal for his doctoral dissertation and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2011 to 2015. He was awarded the 2018 Edward E. Altshuler Prize, the 2014 IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award, the 2004 ACES Journal Best Paper Award, and best conference paper awards at APEMC 2012 and CEM 2014. More than ten of his students have received student awards for joint papers at IEEE conferences. In 2018, he received the University of Adelaide Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Higher Degree by Research Supervisory Practice. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves as the 2025 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. His editorial contributions include Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2010-2013), Senior Associate Editor and Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013-2016), and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2017-early 2023). Key publications include 'Half-mode substrate-integrated waveguides and their applications for antenna technology' (2018), 'Tutorial: Terahertz beamforming, from concepts to realizations' (2018), 'Horizontally Polarized 360° Beam-Steerable Frequency-Reconfigurable Antenna' (2019), 'Low-profile leaky-wave antenna for continuous fixed-frequency beam steering at K-band using mechanically adjustable airgap' (2025), and 'Dual-band phase shifter with independent phase control and diplexer functionality for K/Ka-band LEO satellite systems' (2025).