Mohammad Alibakhshikenari was born in Mazandaran, Iran, in February 1988. He received the Ph.D. degree with the European label and Excellent Cum Laude in electronics engineering from the University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’ (UNITOV), Italy, in February 2020. From May 2018 to December 2018, he was a Ph.D. Visiting Researcher with the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. His training during this visit included a research stage at Swedish Company “Gap Waves AB.” During his Ph.D. (Nov. 2016 – Feb. 2020).
He is now a Marie Sklodowska-Curie, ROSETTA, and LERO (the Research Ireland Centre for Software) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Galway, Ireland. As part of this fellowship, he had five research visits at the Microwave Engineering Center for Space Applications (MECSA, October 2025); Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain (October 2025); Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan (November 2025); Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea (December 2025); and Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea (December 2025).
In 12th May 2026, he received a letter of acknowledgement from President of the University of Galway, "Prof. David Burn", and he was commended due to his contribution to the research excellence of the university. In academic year 2021/2022, he received the letter of acknowledgement from the Vice-Rector of studies of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Prof. Marta Pilar Macias Dorissa”, due to his contribution to the teaching excellence in the “Electromagnetic Fields”. According to Stanford University yearly analysis, he has been among the World’s Top 2% Scientists of highly cited scientific authors, since 2020. He was a recipient of two young engineer awards of the 47th and 48th European Microwave Conferences held in Nuremberg, Germany, in 2017, and in Madrid, Spain, in 2018, respectively. In April 2020, his research article entitled ‘‘High-Gain Metasurface in Polyimide On-Chip Antenna Based on CRLH-TL for Sub Terahertz Integrated Circuits, published in Scientific Reports, volume 10, Article number 4298 (2020)’’ was awarded as the Best Month Paper at the University of Bradford, U.K. In addition, he serves the role of an Associate Editor for two scientific journals of Radio Science and The Journal of Engineering (JOE). He acts as a referee in several journals, and the technical program committee (TPC) and session chair of several international conferences.

His research interests include “Electromagnetic fields, antennas and wave-propagations, metamaterials and metasurfaces, RF/microwave systems, sensors and biosensing, next generation of wireless communications, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, millimeter-waves and terahertz devices, and beamforming networks”.