**About the Editor**

**Stanislav Maslovski** (Dr., Assoc. Research Prof.) was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. (presently St. Petersburg, Russia), in 1975. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Cand. Math-Phys. Sc. (Ph.D.) degrees from the Radiophysics faculty of St. Petersburg State Technical Univ. (SPb STU) in 1997, 1999 and 2004, respectively. During the years 2002–2005, he was with the Radio Laboratory of Helsinki Univ. of Technology. In the period 2006–2008, S.I. Maslovski worked as a Docent (Assoc. Prof.) at the Radiophysics faculty of SPb STU. Since 2009, he has been with Instituto de Telecomunicac¸oes (IT), ˜ Portugal. During the years 2010–2013, S.I. Maslovski was also a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Metamaterials of the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg, Russia. Presently, S.I. Maslovski is Associate Research Professor at Dept. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics at Aveiro Univ., Portugal, and Senior Researcher at IT-Aveiro. He is an Associate Editor in IET Quantum Communication and a Topic Editor in Electronics (Switzerland). His main research interests are in the electromagnetics of metamaterials and metasurfaces, smart and active antennas and beamforming systems, and in the quantum-electromagnetic effects in metamaterials, such as the Casimir–Lifshitz forces and the super-Planckian radiative heat transfer effects.
