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Giovanni Andrea Casula (M’04) was born in 1974. He received the Laurea (summa cum laude) degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science from the University di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. From 2006 to 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor of Electromagnetic with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, and since 2017 he is Associate Professor in the same University, where he is teaching courses in electromagnetics, microwave and antenna engineering.He is associate Editor of :- IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation- IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation- International Journal of Antennas and Propagation- MDPI Sensors- MDPI ElectronicsHe serves as reviewer for several prestigious international journals, and has been General Chair of the 12th IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications (RFID-TA 2022), and TPC member and organizer of Special Sessions in many important international Conferences.His main research topics are:- Wearable antennas and RFID antennas. Analysis and design of antennas for passive RFID tags using flexible and unconventional substrates. Improvement of the robustness of wearable antennas with respect to the human body coupling. Reduction of the antenna sensitivity to the random changes of the antenna- body distance due to the wearer natural movements.- Analysis and design of waveguide slot arrays and SIW slot arrays.- Numerical analysis of waveguide discontinuities in the feeding network of waveguide slot arrays. - Effective analysis and design of waveguide slot arrays, including the design of their beam-forming networks. Development of synthesis procedures for the design of shaped beam waveguide slot arrays, conformal waveguide slot arrays and SIW slot arrays.- Analysis, and design of wire, patch and slot antennas- Microwave antennas design using genetic programming - Periodic structures design (EBG and AMC) through evolutionary programming - Printed log-periodic dipole antennas design using innovative feeding techniques and inkjet printingHis research activity is performed also in cooperation with other national and international research groups.