Gianluca Lazzi was born in Rome, Italy, on April 25, 1970. He received the Dr.Eng. degree in electronics in 1994 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1998 from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He has been a visiting researcher at the ENEA (Italian National Board for New Technologies, Energy, and Environment) (1994), visiting researcher at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (1994-1995), and Research Associate (1995-1998) and Research Assistant Professor (1998-1999) at the University of Utah. He joined in 1999 the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North carolina State University where he was an Assistant Professor (1999-2003), an Associate Professor (2003-2006), and he is currently a Professor (2006 - today).

Dr.Lazzi is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is recipient of the ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award (2003), an Outstanding Teacher Award (2003), an Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award (2003), a 2001 NSF CAREER Award, a 2001 Whitaker Foundation "Biomedical Engineering Grant" for Young Investigators, a 1996 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) "Young Scientist Award," and the 1996 "Curtis Carl Johnson Memorial Award" for the best student paper presented at the eighteenth annual technical meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS). He is author or co-author of more than 75 international journal articles or conference presentations on FDTD modeling, dosimetry, and bioelectromagnetics. He is also an Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), an Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Sensors Journal , and the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on "Biological Effects and Medical Applications of RF/Microwaves" of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (published in Aug. 2004). His name is listed in Who's Who in the World , Who's Who in America , Who's Who in Science and Engineering , Dictionary of International Biographies , and 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century .