Marco Farina

Marco Farina has been a professor of Electromagnetics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) since 1999, achieving the rank of full professor in 2013.

Farina is the author of the electromagnetic modeling software EM3DS (Electromagnetic 3D Silmulator), developed between 2000 and 2019, which is utilized by several institutions, laboratories, and companies for research and design. Historically, EM3DS was also optionally embedded in major tools such as AWR/National Instruments/Cadence’s “Microwave Office,” Coventor’s “Coventorware” (until 2012), and Corning Intellisense’s “Intellisuite” (until 2004).

Farina designed and developed a hybrid STM/Near Field Scanning Microwave Microscope (SMM). More recently, he introduced a novel “inverted” SMM, which was awarded the US Patent US11674976B2. He is also directly involved in several European Horizon 2020 projects focused on nanotechnology.

This microscopy work has secured several grants, including funding from the US Army Research Laboratory and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Within this framework, Farina has authored numerous papers, including an invited review as guest editor of the special issue “Microwaves and Microscopy” in the IEEE Microwave Magazine (2020). The principle of his calibration technique for microwave microscopes, published in IEEE MTT in 2011, is now adopted as a standard by Keysight.

He co-authored the book Advanced electromagnetic analysis of passive and active planar structures (IET, 1999) with Tullio Rozzi, and has published over 200 papers and conference proceedings, and was awarded several patents for calibration techniques, microscopy and sensors. His contributions appear in several high-impact, interdisciplinary, and physics journals such as Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters, Nanoscale, Small, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, among others.

Farina served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (2019–2022) and as TPC Chair for the European Microwave Conference (EuMC 2023, Berlin). He acts as a reviewer for various funding institutions, including the US Army Research Office (USA) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), and for major journals such as Science Advances, Applied Physics Letters (Appl Phys Lett), IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Review of Scientific Instruments.