Short Bio
My house and parents in Chios, Greece (from 1997-2004 DK eyewitness travel guide for Greek Islands)
Professor John L. Volakis (S’77–M’82–SM’89–F96) was born in Chios, Greece, on May 13, 1956 and immigrated to the USA in 1973. He received the B.E. degree (summa cum laude) from Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He started his career at Rockwell International (1982–1984), now Boeing Phantom Works. In 1984, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, becoming a full Professor in 1994. He also served as the Director of the Radiation Laboratory from 1998 to 2000. Since January 2003, he has been the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor of Engineering at The Ohio State University and also served as the Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory (2003-2016). He has carried out research on antennas, medical sensing, computational methods, electromagnetic compatibility and interference, propagation, design optimization, RF materials and metamaterials, RFIDs, milli-meter waves and terahertz, body-worn wireless technologies, and multi-physics engineering. His publications include 8 the books. Among them are: Approximate Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics (IET, 1995), Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics (Wiley–IEEE Press, 1998) the classic 4th ed. Antenna Engineering Handbook (McGraw–Hill, 2007), Small Antennas (McGraw–Hill, 2010), and Integral Equation Methods for Electromagnetics (SciTech, 2011)]. His papers include over 350 journal papers, more than 650 conference papers, and 25 book chapters. He has also written several well-edited coursepacks, and has delivered short courses on antennas, numerical methods, and frequency selective surfaces.
Chios Island – Greece – “The Weeping Isle”. Click the photo above to watch a YouTube video of Chios Island – Greece.
View of the Castle Village where I grew up: Olympi, Chios.
(αποψη Ολυμπων, Χιου από Αγια Κυριακη)
Click the Photo Above to Watch a YouTube Video of the Village.
A popular beach near Olympi, Chios (Αγια Δυναμη με αρδαξογλου)