Alexandros Feresidis is a Senior Lecturer in Wireless Communications within the department. He is an expert on artificial electromagnetic structures and their applications on antennas, microwave circuits, mm-wave and THz systems and biomedical engineering. His research interests include analysis and design of artificial periodic metamaterials, electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures and frequency selective surfaces (FSS), high-gain and base station antennas, small/compact antennas, computational electromagnetics, microwave/mm-wave/THz circuits and medical imaging systems. He has co-authored three book chapters on artificial electromagnetic surfaces and has published approximately 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.
Dr Feresidis has acted as external examiner for PhD degrees in several universities in UK and internationally (Technical University of Helsinki, University of Rennes, and others). He has also presented a number of invited papers and seminars in international conferences and European PhD schools, he has been a member of organising and technical committees and chaired sessions in internaitonal conferences. He is a regular reviewer for several IEEE, IET and IoP journals and the UK EPSRC.
Dr Feresidis is a member of the departmental research committee and MSc Director for DCS/MC/NC.
Professional Affiliations
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Expertise
Active control of periodic structures
Antennas
Communications
Fixed and mobile communication systems
Frequency-selective surfaces
Leaky wave antennas
Metamaterials
Microwave and mm-wave engineering
Sensors
Wireless Communications
Biomedical engineering
Reconfigurable antennas
Specific absorption rate (sar)
Alexandros Feresidis received the Physics degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1997, and the MSc(Eng) in Radio Communications and High Frequency Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1998. In 2002, he obtained the Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Loughborough University, UK.
During the first half of 2002, he was a research associate and in the same year he was appointed Lecturer in Wireless Communications in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University. In 2006, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in the same department.
Dr Feresidis' research focuses on the analysis and design of artificial periodic electromagnetic structures with applications on antennas (high-gain arrays, small/compact, leaky-wave), microwave and mm-wave circuits, and medical imaging systems. The research has been funded primarily by EPSRC, MRC and Ofcom.
Current PhD students:
Qian Li, "Novel MIMO antennas for compact terminals"
Past PhD students:
George Apostolopoulos, “Miniaturised metallodielectric periodic structures for electromagnetic band gap materials and antenna applications” Awarded Dec. 2006.
Yunchuan Guo, “Analysis and design of novel electromagnetic metamaterials using advanced numerical techniques.” Awarded July 2006
Shenhong Wang, “High-gain Planar Resonant Cavity Antennas Using Metamaterial Surfaces” Passed his viva on 13/01/06. Awarded July 2006
George Palikaras, “Cylindrical-conformal meta-surfaces for WLAN and base station antenna applications”, writing-up
Titos Kokkinos, "Analysis and design of metamaterial-inspired microwave structures and antenna applications", Awarded 2009
Undergraduate
ELC039 Microwave Communication systems
ELC013 Electromagnetic Compatibility
Typically Dr Feresidis supervises 2-3 Part C/D final year projects.
Postgraduate
ELP015 Communication Channels
Typically Dr Feresidis supervises 2-3 MSc projects.
PhD
Enquiries and applications for a PhD programme are always welcome
View all Dr Feresidis’s publications in the central publications database
Selected Publications
A. P. Feresidis, G. Goussetis, A. Yakovlev, C. Simovski, “High Impedance Surfaces: Applications”, Book Chapter 21 in Metamaterials Handbook, vol. 2: Applications of Metamaterials, edited by Filippo Capolino, CRC Press, October 2009. [Collaboration with Queen's University Belfast, University of Helsinki, University of Mississippi]
T. Kokkinos, and A. P. Feresidis, “Low-Profile Folded Monopoles with Embedded Planar Metamaterial Phase-Shifting Lines,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 57, no 10, pp. 2997-3008, Oct. 2009.
J. R. Kelly, and A. P. Feresidis, “Array Antenna With Increased Element Separation Based on a Fabry–Pérot Resonant Cavity With AMC Walls,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 682-687, March 2009.
J. R. Kelly, T. Kokkinos, and A. P. Feresidis, “Analysis and Design of Sub-wavelength Resonant Cavity Type 2-D Leaky-Wave Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no 9, pp. 2817-2825, Sept. 2008.
P. Kosmas, A. P. Feresidis, and G. Goussetis, “Periodic FDTD analysis of a 2-D leaky-wave planar antenna based on dipole frequency selective surfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 55, no 7, pp. 2006-2012, July 2007.
G. Goussetis, A. P. Feresidis, and R. Cheung, “Quality factor assessment of subwavelength resonant microcavities at FIR”, Institute of Physics J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 9 (2007), pp. 355-360. [Collaboration with University of Edinburgh]
G. Goussetis, A. P. Feresidis, and P. Kosmas, “Efficient Analysis, Design, and Filter Applications of EBG Waveguide with Periodic Resonant Loads,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no 11, pp. 3885-3892, Nov. 2006
J.L. Gomez-Tornero, G. Goussetis, A.P. Feresidis, and A. Alvarez-Melcon, “Control of Leaky-Mode Propagation and Radiation Properties in Hybrid Dielectric-Waveguide Printed-Circuit Technology: Experimental Results,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 54, no 11, pp. 3383-3390, Nov. 2006. [Collaboration with University of Cartagena, Spain]
