Douglas Werner


Douglas Henry Werner is an American scientist and engineer. He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professorship in the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering and is the director of the Penn State University . Werner holds 20 patents and has over 1090 publications. He is the author/co-author of 8 books. His h-index and number of citations are recorded on his profile. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in electromagnetics, antenna design, optical metamaterials and metamaterial-enabled devices as well as for the development/application of inverse-design techniques.

Biography

Douglas Werner received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the M.A. degree in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA in 1983, 1985, 1989, and 1986, respectively. He joined the electrical engineering faculty at Penn State in 1998. He is the director of the Penn State University Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Laboratory. He is also a faculty member of the Materials Research Institute at Penn State.
He has made research contributions to the areas of computational electromagnetics, antenna theory and design, phased arrays, microwave devices, wireless and personal communication systems, wearable and e-textile antennas, RFID tag antennas, conformal antennas, reconfigurable antennas, frequency selective surfaces, electromagnetic wave interactions with complex media, metamaterials, electromagnetic bandgap materials, zero and negative index materials, transformation optics, nanoscale electromagnetics, fractal and knot electrodynamics, and nature-inspired optimization techniques.
Werner's work has been regarded for its real-world applicability and has served to advance the state of the art in electromagnetics design.

Awards and honors

Books

Advances in Electromagnetics Empowered by Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, IEEE Press/Wiley, 2023. ISBN 978-1-119-66296-9.Electromagnetic Vortices: Wave Phenomena and Engineering Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Newark, NJ, 2021. ISBN 978-1-119-66296-9.
  • Nanoantennas and Plasmonics: Modelling, Design Fabrication, SciTech Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78561-837-6.Broadband Metamaterials in Electromagnetics: Technology and Applications, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2017. ISBN 9781315364438.Electromagnetics of Body-Area Networks: Antennas, Propagation, and RF Systems, Wiley/IEEE Press, September 2016. ISBN 978-1-119-02946-5.Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4471-4996-5.Genetic Algorithms in Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-48889-7.Frontiers in Electromagnetics, IEEE Press/Wiley, 2000. ISBN 978-0-780-34701-4.