Francesca Vipiana 

Board Member

Francesca Vipiana received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively, with doctoral research carried out partly at the European Space Research Technology Center, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. From 2005 to 2008, she was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino. From 2009 to 2012, she was the Head of the Antenna and EMC Laboratory, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino. Since 2012, she has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, where she has been an Associate Professor since 2014 and a Full Professor since 2021. 

Her main research activities concern numerical techniques based on integral equations and method of moments, with a focus on multiresolution and hierarchical schemes, domain decomposition, preconditioning and fast solution methods, advanced quadrature integration schemes, and glide-periodic structures. Moreover, her research interests include the modeling, design, realization and testing of microwave imaging and sensing systems for medical and industrial applications. 

She received the Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2017, she was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2018-2024) and the founder and responsible of the Women in Engineering Column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (2019-2024). She is a member of the EurAAP Board of Directors and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE AP-S Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Sense of Belonging Committee.