SORBELLO Gino (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in electronics engineering from the University of Catania, Catania, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Milan, Italy, in 2000.,He became an Assistant Professor of Electromagnetic Fields with the University of Catania, in 2002. Since 2014, he has been an Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Fields with the Department of Electric, Electronics, and Computer Engineering, University of Catania. His current research interests include single-mode solid-state waveguide lasers and amplifiers, integrated optics, the development of planar antennas and ultrawideband compact antennas, and the study of microwave devices and computational electromagnetism with a special interest in RF–plasma interactions and particle accelerators. Dr. Sorbello has been a member of INFN-LNS and collaborates with the Ion Sources and Plasma Physics Group, since 2012.