LPHE-MS, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Dr. Mohamed El Bakkali was born in Morocco and graduated from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in the city of Fez, Morocco, with a Bachelor's degree in physics and a Master's degree in Control Engineering, Signals & Systems in 2014 and 2016. On July 17, 2020, he earned a Doctor of Science in Telecommunications (physics) from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. Dr. El Bakkali, like NASA's CubeSat antenna researchers, is among the pioneers globally in advancing scientific knowledge pertaining to CubeSat antennas, as his doctoral dissertation represents the inaugural scholarly work in the scientific community focusing on the application of planar antennas with parasitic elements and metasurfaces for 3U CubeSats. Dr. El Bakkali leads their research group, which includes scientists, department directors (such as Prof. Dr. Igor Kuzmichev and Prof. Dr. Mykhailo Ilchenko from Ukraine), IEEE Life Fellows (such as Prof. Dr. Josep M. Guerrero from Denmark), IEEE Life Senior Members (such as Prof. Dr. Mykhailo Ilchenko from Ukraine, who has received three Ukrainian State Prizes and three awards for Science and Technology Excellence), professors, and PhD students from various countries. He is associated with two public universities in Morocco: University Mohamed V in Rabat (UM5) and University Chouaib Doukkali in El Jadida (CDU). Dr. El Bakkali has written dozens of publications with authors and co-authors from Morocco, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Korea, India, Australia, Denmark, Spain, Iraq, Malaysia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, China, and the United Kingdom. He has also evaluated tens of papers for various international journals and international conferences . Dr. El Bakkali is a volunteer reviewer for Scopus and WoS indexed open access journals published by MPDI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), Switzerland. Dr. El Bakkali has established a robust network for antenna manufacturing and measurement for all antenna configurations throughout all frequency bands and for practically all systems, including CubeSats, FemtoSats, Small and Ultra-Small Spacecrafts, Space applications, RFID, IoT applications, and so on. His primary research interests include antenna fabrication and measurements, EM softwares, EM simulation, antenna design and optimization, metasurface antennas, slot antennas, Fabry-Perot antennas, high gain antennas, antenna arrays, crossed dipole antennas, metal-only antennas, mm-wave antennas, NASA's small spacecrafts, JAXA spacecrafts, advanced space telecommunication, CubeSat applications, CubeSat constellation, TubeSat, FemtoSat and ZeptoSat communication, RFID and IoT applications. Dr. Mohamed is also interested in the stability and stabilization of bidirectional teleportation systems employing LMIs (Linear Matrix Inequalities) and the Lyapunov-Krasovskii function.