Dr. Bansal, who joined UConn in 1981, will begin his term as Head of ECE in July 2009. He succeeds Dr. Peter Luh, with whom he has served as Associate Department Head since 2006. Prior to joining the University of Connecticut in 1981, he conducted research at the Gordon McKay Laboratory at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in applied physics in 1981. His areas of expertise include applied electromagnetics (EM), antenna design, and biomedical applications of EM waves. Dr. Bansal is an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a senior member of IEEE, and a Fellow of The Electromagnetics Academy. He is a co-inventor on two U.S. patents, and he has edited three handbooks and authored several book chapters as well as more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. At the University level, Dr. Bansal has served as an elected member of the University Senate since 1999. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, and serves on the editorial boards of the online journal Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIER) and the International Journal of RF & Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering.