Through the wall imaging, ground penetrating radar, oil search through cross-holes and borehole exploration, geophysics are some of the possible applications of the capability of e.m. waves to penetrate materials. In fact, solution of an underlying inverse problem can generate quantitative imaging.

Main difficulties and challenges, as well as the present state of the art and perspectives in methods for quantitative imaging through inverse scattering will be covered for simple yet very instructive geometries.

Some relationships with the interesting related problem of ‘becoming invisible’ will be also briefly covered. 

About the Speaker

Prof. Tommaso Isernia received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Naples, Naples, Italy, in 1988. From 1988 to 1991, he worked with the Applied electromagnetic Research Group, University of Naples, as a Ph.D. student, from 1991 to 1997 as a Researcher, and from 1998 to 2003 as an Associate Professor. After receiving the title National Qualification to Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields, he moved to the Università Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria, Italy. His scientific interest are devoted to inverse problems in electromagnetics, and in particular to inverse scattering (and microwave imaging) and antenna synthesis and diagnostics problems. Prof. Isernia was the recipient of the G. Barzilai Award of the Italian Electromagnetic Society in 1994. Many years later, the same recognition has been given to several of his PhD students.
He is a Fellow of IEEE AP-S since 2022. Under his Direction, the ‘Dipartimento of Ingegneria dell’Informazione’ at Mediterranea University was included in the restricted list of ‘Dipartimenti di Eccellenza’ by the Italian Mimistry for Research.