Francesco Chiadini is Associate Professor of Electromagnetics in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy, where he leads the Microwave and Optical Technologies Laboratory. He received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Salerno, Italy. He has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers of which more than 100 are articles in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests encompass electromagnetic surface waves, anti-reflection coatings, mirrors for gravitational interferometry, bioinspired structures. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, of Optica, and of SPIE; he is member of the LIGO-Virgo-KaGra Scientific Collaboration (LVK) as a member of the Virgo Collaboration and member of ET (Einstein Telescope) Collaboration. He is also affiliated with INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics).
Vincenzo Fiumara is a Full Professor of Electromagnetics at the School Department of Engineering of the University of Basilicata, Italy. Previously, he was awarded a CNR (Italian National Research Council) fellowship in 1998. Since 1999 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Electrical Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy). In 2005 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Basilicata. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Electromagnetics from the University of Salerno, Italy. He has co-authored more than 200 scientific papers of which about more than 120 130 are articles in peer-reviewed international journals. His current research interests include electromagnetic surface waves, materials and design of mirror coatings for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, disordered photonic structures. He was member of the Ligo (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration (LSC). He is currently member of the Virgo and ET (Einstein Telescope) Collaborations. He is affiliated with INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics). He has been elected a Senior Member of SPIE.