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Anthony Grbic distinguished expert in metamaterials visited the University of Zagreb
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By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić
Published on 12/4/2015
 
Anthony Grbic received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2005. In January 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently an Associate Professor. In January 2010, he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2011, he received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He has Croatian roots, and he collaborates among others with a group of Croatian scientists at the University of Zagreb.

Professor Grbic, who has Croatian roots, visited his colleagues at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb in 2014


Dr Anthony Grbic, distinguished expert in metamaterials, recipient of
 the prestigious 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

 
Anthony Grbic


Anthony Grbic received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 1998, 2000, and 2005, respectively. In January 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include engineered electromagnetic structures (metamaterials, metasurfaces, electromagnetic band-gap materials, frequency selective surfaces), plasmonics, antennas, microwave circuits, wireless power transmission systems, and analytical electromagnetics/optics.

Dr. Grbic received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award as well as an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2008. In January 2010, he was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2011, he received an Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, a Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan, and a Booker Fellowship from the United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI). In 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the Ernest and Bettine Kuh Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in the Department of Electrical and Computer Science, University of Michigan. Anthony Grbic served as Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting. He is currently Vice Chair of AP-S Technical Activities, Trident Chapter, IEEE Southeastern Michigan section. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

Address:

Anthony Grbic
Associate Professor, Radiation Laboratory
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue, EECS Building, Room 3238
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122
Tel:  734-647-1797
Fax: 734-647-2106
e-mail: agrbic@umich.edu

Source www.eecs.umich.edu



Professor Anthony Grbic conducts research in applied electromagnetics, and in particular antennas, microwave circuits, and metamaterials.
He is recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.


 
Anthony Grbic lives in Ann Arbor, USA. He was born and grew up in the Toronto area, Canada. Anthony's parents are from Privlaka, a coastal town close to the city of Zadar, Croatia. 

Anthony is fluent in Croatian, and often goes to Croatia to vacation with his wife and children, and visit relatives as well as his colleagues in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb.


 
President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
THE WHITE HOUSE


July 9, 2009

PRESIDENT HONORS OUTSTANDING EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS
President Obama today named 100 beginning researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.  The recipient scientists and engineers will receive their awards in the Fall at a White House ceremony.
The Presidential Early Career Awards embody the high priority the Administration places on producing outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the nation’s goals and contribute to all sectors of the economy.  Nine Federal departments and agencies join together annually to nominate the most meritorious young scientists and engineers—researchers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for strengthening America’s leadership in science and technology and contributing to the awarding agencies' missions.

"These extraordinarily gifted young scientists and engineers represent the best in our country," President Obama said.  "With their talent, creativity, and dedication, I am confident that they will lead their fields in new breakthroughs and discoveries and help us use science and technology to lift up our nation and our world."
The awards, established by President Clinton in February 1996, are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Awardees are selected on the basis of two criteria: Pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and a commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach. Winning scientists and engineers receive up to a five-year research grant to further their study in support of critical government missions.

Among the 2010 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is
Anthony Grbic, University of Michigan.

Source  www.whitehouse.gov



President Barack Obama talks with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) winners
in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 13, 2010. January 13, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
Note: Look for Prof. Grbic in the second row, fourth from the left.

Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology & Director of the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy. Prof. Tony Grbic; Dr. Zachary J. Lemnios, Director, Defense Research and Engineering.

 
Professor Anthony Grbic

Prof. Anthony (Tony) Grbic, assistant professor in the Radiation Laboratory, was awarded the highly prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), announced July 9, 2009 by The White House. The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Tony joined U-M in 2006 after receiving his M.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Prof. Grbic pursues both experimental and theoretical research in electromagnetics and microwave circuits. His research program involves both basic science (e.g. multidisciplinary work on metamaterials and near-field plates) as well as advanced technology development (e.g. antenna research and design, wireless component development).

He is a pioneer in the field of electromagnetic metamaterials, publishing highly influential papers even while working on his dissertation at the University of Toronto. His more recent work in this area is focused on the development of a special class of volumetric metamaterials which can overcome the bandwidth and loss limitations of current metamaterial designs. The superior performance of these metamaterials will allow them to be integrated into practical microwave focusing and antenna systems.

He is now breaking ground in a new area that is of great interest among researchers, near-field superlenses, by pursuing an entirely new approach to manipulating and focusing the electromagnetic near field, which relies on modulated grating-like surfaces referred to as near-field plates (NFPs). NFP's hold promise for a number of areas including high resolution probing devices, quasi-optical and optical components, devices for wireless non-radiative power transfer, as well as antennas and nano-antennas. In this work, he is actively collaborating with physics professor Roberto Merlin.
[Photo: Cyan James]

The article, "Near-Field Plates: Subdiffraction focusing with patterned surfaces,Ć by Anthony Grbic, graduate student Lei Jiang, and physics professor Roberto Merlin, appeared in Science, vol. 320, no. 5874, pp. 511-513, April 25, 2008. His research activities have also been been cited in Scientific American, Nature, Physics World, Physics Today, New Scientist, Discover Magazine and EE Times.

Prof. Grbic has received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award. He is very active in professional societies, and is already a frequently invited speaker at professional conferences and symposiums. He teaches courses in introductory Electromagnetics, senior level Radiowave Propagation and Link Design, and graduate courses in Electromagnetic Metamaterials.

The PECASE Awards are intended to recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century. The Awards foster innovative and far-reaching developments in science and technology, increase awareness of careers in science and engineering, give recognition to the scientific missions of participating agencies, enhance connections between fundamental research and national goals, and highlight the importance of science and technology for the nation's future.

Several agencies participate in the PECASE awards. Prof. Grbic received his award from the Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Source www.eecs.umich.edu



At the University of Zagreb, Croatia (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing) in 2014:
Professors Juraj Bartolić, Zvonimir Šipuš, Anthony Grbac (project co-leader), Silvijo Hrabar (project leader),
Radovan Zentner and Davor Bonefačić.


Professor Anthony Grbic visited his Croatian colleagues at the Univeristy of Zagreb

As a part of the project prof. Anthony Grbic visited the electromagnetic group at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (14th -22nd October 2014). During the visit, the partners defined forthcoming activities in modeling of metastructures and their experimental characterization. Prof. Grbic also gave an IEEE talk with the title “Metasurfaces for Manipulating Electromagnetic Waves.” The summary of the talk is given below.

Metamaterials have provided unprecedented control over electromagnetic fields. However, their notable thickness has often led to fabrication challenges and added loss. This has motivated the development of metasurfaces:  the two dimensional analog of metamaterials. Metasurfaces are surfaces textured at a subwavelength scale to achieve tailored electromagnetic properties. They fall into two broad categories. The first class of metasurfaces manipulate electromagnetic wavefronts incident from free space.  This type of metasurface tailors the wave transmitted through it, or reflected from it. The second class of metasurfaces guide or radiate waves. The metasurface acts as either a waveguiding structure or supports leaky waves that radiate directive far-field patterns. This talk will describe the development of both types of metasurfaces.

Reflectionless metasurfaces (Huygens’ metamaterial surfaces) that can steer, focus and manipulate the polarization of transmitted electromagnetic waves will be described. These metasurfaces possess both electric and magnetic responses, which allow them to be impedance-matched to the surrounding space. Different metasurfaces that allow polarization control, beam deflection and focusing will be presented.  Bianisotropic metasurfaces with enhanced field tailoring properties will also be touched upon.

A systematic approach to designing these new metasurfaces will be introduced, and a few experimental devices reported to demonstrate the capabilities of this technology. Next, a new approach to designing 2D inhomogeneous, anisotropic media will be described. The design methodology allows the design of 2D media that support desired spatial distributions of the wave vector and Poynting vector direction. Its utility in the design of metasurfaces will be demonstrated through different design examples.

The proposed method allows arbitrary control of electromagnetic fields within a 2D medium. Such spatial control of phase and power flow allows one to mold the phase and amplitude of an aperture field. Preliminary results of a beamformer designed using the proposed methodology will be shown. Finally, the synthesis of radiation patterns using conductor-backed metasurfaces (impedance surfaces) will be explored.  A synthesis procedure enabling the design of low-profile, leaky-wave antennas with prescribed far-field patterns will be demonstrated.

Source www.fer.unizg.hr


We express our sincere gratitude to Zvonimir Šipuš, Professor at the University of Zagreb,
for his kind information about Professor Anthony Grbac.

It is little known that William Feller (1906-1970), born in Zagreb, Croatia, professor of Mathematics at the Princeton Univeristy,
was awarded by the National Medal of Science in 1970 in the filed of Mathematical Sciences.

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