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Reconfigurable Artificial Material for RF circuits and antennas

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Biography

MOHAMED HIMDI received the Ph.D. degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1, France in 1990. Since 2003, he has been a Professor with the University of Rennes 1, and the Head of the High Frequency and Antenna Department until 2013, and from 2024 of IETR.

He has authored or co-authored 173 journal papers and over 350 papers in conference proceedings. H-index 39 He has also co-authored 12 book chapters. He holds 49 patents. His research activities concern passive and active millimeter-wave antennas.

His research also includes the development of new architectures of antenna arrays, and new three-dimensional (3-D) antenna technologies. He was Laureate of the 2d National Competition for the Creation of Enterprises in Innovative Technologies in 2000 (Ministry of Industry and Education).

In March 2015 he received the JEC-AWARD at Paris on Pure composite material antenna embedded into a motorhome roof for the Digital Terrestrial Television reception. He received the Innovation Trophy 2021 from University of Rennes 1.

In 2024, he received with student Nur Biha the Gold Award for thr invention/Innovation category from iMTC 9.0 in Universiti Putra Malaysia.