Mauro Mongiardo

Mauro Mongiardo passed away on February 5, 2026, at the age of 66. He received the laurea degree (110/110 cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1983. He became Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Fields in 1991 and Full Professor in 2001 at the University of Perugia. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to the modal analysis of complex electromagnetic structures” in 2013.

During the years 2008-2010, Prof. Mongiardo served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. For several decades, he was member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee on Design Automation (MTT-S TC-2, formerly MTT-1 on Computer-Aided Design). Prof. Mongiardo was author or co-author of over 200 papers in the fields of microwave components, microwave CAD, antennas, and wireless power transfer. He co-authored the books “Open Electromagnetic Waveguides” (1997), “Electromagnetic Field Computation by Network Methods” (2009), and “Campi Elettromagnetici con l’Algebra Geometrica” (2022). During his last decade of scientific research, Prof. Mongiardo focused on the investigation of magnetic-resonant wireless power transfer and the application of geometric algebra to electrodynamics.

Along with his rigorous academic and scientific work, Prof. Mauro Mongiardo cultivated a keen interest in philosophy and astronomy; he was a music lover and classical guitar player, as well as a versatile sportsman. As an experienced sailor, he undertook numerous long-distance voyages with his beloved wife, Marina, on their sailboat, guided by a profound respect for nature.