Sandra Costanzo (IEEE Senior Member) received the Laurea Degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Engineering from the Università della Calabria, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2000. In 2017, she awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification for the Full Professor position. Since 2019, she is also Associate with IREA-CNR (Naples). She is currently an Associate Professor with the Università della Calabria, where she is the Coordinator of Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Rector’s Delegate for Health Safety and Covid Manager. She teaches courses on electromagnetic waves propagation, antennas, remote sensing, radar, sensors and electromagnetic diagnostics. She has authored or coauthored more than 200 contributions in international journals, books, and conferences. Her research interests are focused on microwave sensors for non-invasive monitoring of biomedical features, microwave imaging for biomedical applications, electromagnetic diagnostics, signal processing techniques applied to biomedical signals, electromagnetic characterization of materials, radar technologies, near-field/far-field techniques, antenna measurement techniques, antenna analysis and synthesis, numerical methods in electromagnetics, millimeter wave antennas, reflectarrays, and synthesis methods for microwave structures. She is member of the IEEE MTT-28 Biological Effects and Medical Applications Committee, IEEE South Italy Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter, CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni), SIEM (Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo), ICEMB (Centro Interuniversitario sulle Interazioni fra Campi Elettromagnetici e Biosistemi), and Board Member of the IEEE AP/ED/MTT North Italy Chapter. She received the Telecom Prize for the Best Laurea Thesis in 1996, and the Best Academia & Research Application in Aerospace and Defense 2013 Award for the application Software Defined Radar using the NI USRP 2920 platform. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, Electronics (section ‘Microwave and Wireless Communications’), Sensors (section ‘Physical sensors’), COVID, and editorial board member of Radioengineering and International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering. She is Editor of the books ‘Microwave Materials Characterization’ (INTECH, 2012) and ‘Wave Propagation Concepts for Near-Future Telecommunication Systems’ (INTECH, 2017). She was Lead Editor of many Special Issues on international journals.
