Alfredo Gomes Neto (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and in microwaves area from the Federal University of Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brazil, in 1986, 1989, and 1994, respectively. In 1993, he developed part of his D.Sc. with the ENSEEIHT, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, to where he returned, in 2005, during the postdoctoral research. Since 1989, he has been with the Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB), João Pessoa, where he was one of the founders of the Telecommunications and Applied Electromagnetism Group (GTEMA), in 1994. He was the General Chair of the Brazilian Microwave Symposium, in 2000, and the General Chair of the MOMAG 2012, the most important Brazilian Microwave and Optoelectronics Conferences. From 2015 to 2019, he served as a Co-Advisor Professor with the doctoral program with Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. He has more than 190 papers published in journals and conferences. His research interests include electromagnetic theory, microwaves, wave propagation, frequency-selective surfaces, filters, sensors, antennas, and numerical methods. Dr. Neto is a member of the Brazilian Society of Microwaves and Optoelectronics (SBMO). He has served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences.