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Italy. He also holds Research Affiliate appointments CNIT and WILA, as well as ICT consultant for the Rome municipality. He has coauthored more than 180 articles published in international journals, books, international and national conferences. His current research topics cover 5G and B5G networks, EMF measurement and modelling, optimization applied to telecommunication networks and health risks assessment of 5G and B5G communications. He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Spring 2020, the IEEE VTC-Spring 2016, and the Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks 2018, all of them appearing as the first author. Some of his papers are listed as the Best Readings on Green Communications by the IEEE. Moreover, he has been recognized as an Author in the Top 1% Most Highly Cited Papers in the Information and Communication Technology field worldwide and top 2% world scientists according to the 2021 and 2022 updates of the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicator He has been in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE INFOCOM conference since 2018, as well as serving in the TPC of other major conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, VTC, 5G Italy). He is Chief Editor of the Networks Section for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal (Scopus indexed in 2023). He served as Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Magazine (for 7 years), IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Access, He is Co-principal investigator for the KAUT-CNIT bilateral project PLAN-EMF and for the national project MOSS. He is currently project manager and coordinator of the UNIROMA2 spoke for the RESTART program. He is/has been a member of several projects, including European ones (H2020, FP7) and national ones (CTE, PRIN, FIRB). He has served as keynote in several venues (GSMA, ITU-T, IEEE COMA, ITNAC conference, SNOW workshop, Anritsu webinar, ARPA Lazio webinar, ARTIST international school) and panelist in different conferences/meetings (ICC, COMMNET conference, 6G summit, ITU-T Kaleidoscope conference, 5G Italy conference).

BIO: Anna Maria Vegni (Senior member, IEEE) is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering at Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy). She received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications from the Department of Applied Electronics, Roma Tre University, in March 2010. In 2009, she was a visiting researcher in the Multimedia Communication Laboratory, directed by Prof. Thomas D.C. Little, at the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA. She a member of ACM and an IEEE Senior Member. In June 2021, she got the Italian Habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Full Professorship in Telecommunication Engineering.Her research interests are related to vehicular networks, optical wireless communications, and Beyond5G technologies. She is involved in the organization of several IEEE and ACM international conferences and is a member of the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine, Transaction on Communications, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, WINET Springer, IEEE JCN and ETT Wiley journal.