Stepan Lucyszyn FREng, FIEEE is a British engineer, inventor and technologist, and has been a Professor of Millimetre-wave Systems at Imperial College London, England, since 2016. He was elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 and elected to Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in 2023. Lucyszyn's research has mainly focused on monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), radio frequency microelectromechnical systems (RF MEMS), wireless power transfer (WPT), thermal infrared technologies ('THz Torch') and additive manufacturing (3D Printing).
Education
2010 D.Sc. in Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Electronics, Imperial College London
1993 Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, University of London (King's College) 1988 M.Sc. in Satellite Communication Engineering, University of Surrey 1987 B.Sc.(Hons) in Electronic & Communication Engineering, Polytechnic of North London
Biography
For a brief time, Lucyszyn worked in industry, as a satellite systems engineer for maritime and military communications. In 1994, he registered with the Engineering Council as a qualified chartered engineer.
Lucyszyn spent 12 years researching microwave and (sub-)millimetre-wave RFICs/MMICs. He co-edited a book entitled RFIC and MMIC Design and Technology, published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, now the IET) in 2001. This book was translated into Chinese in 2007. For his contributions to RFICs/MMICs, he was made an adjunct professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu, China) in 2008.
In 2001, Lucyszyn started working on RF MEMS. In 2004, he published a review paper on RF MEMS technology, which won an IEE Premium Award in 2005. He edited the book entitled Advanced RF MEMS, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. For his contributions to RF MEMS, he was made a guest professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 2008.
Lucyszyn first starting working on millimetre-wave and terahertz technologies in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In 2010, he was awarded the DSc degree (higher doctorate) of Imperial College London for his contributions to Millimetre-wave and Terahertz Electronics. In 2011, he introduced the concept and has since been pioneering "over the THz horizon" thermal infrared 'THz Torch' technologies. In 2012, he co-founded the cross-disciplinary Centre for Terahertz Science and Engineering at Imperial College London and was co-director until 2019.
In recent years, Lucyszyn has concentrated his research activities on building-edge additive manufacturing for next generation microwave, millimetre-wave and terahertz applications. For his contributions to passive component technologies, he was made a visiting professor at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) in 2019. In 2022, for their work on 3D printing, Lucyszyn and his team at Imperial College London won Junkosha's inaugural Technology Innovator of the Year Award for the Microwave and Millimeter Wave category.
Lucyszyn has (co-)authored well over 200 papers and 12 book chapters in applied physics and engineering. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Electronics (2002-2006) and Associate Editor for the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (2005-2009). In 2011, Lucyszyn chaired the 41st European Microwave Conference (EuMC).
Lucyszyn was an External Examiner at the University of Leeds (2009-2013) and University College Cork (2017-2021) for their undergraduate degree programmes in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Lucyszyn was made an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML) (2010-1012) and a EuMA European Microwave Lecturer (EML) (2013).
He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK, 2005), Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK, 2005) and Fellow of The Electromagnetics Academy (USA, 2008). Lucyszyn was elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA, 2014) 'for contributions to monolithic microwave integrated circuits and radio frequency microelectromechanical systems'. Lucyszyn was elected to Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK, 2023).