Yvan Duroc was born in Angouleme, France. He received the Teaching degree 'Agregation' (French national degree) in applied physics in 1995, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France, in 2007 and the 'Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches' degree (HDR) from Grenoble University, Grenoble, France, in 2012. He was a Teaching Associate from 1997 to 2009 and an Associate Professor from 2009 to 2013 at Esisar Engineering School. He is currently a Full Professor at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France. He is in charge of lectures in signal and image processing, RF and microwave, electronics and embedded systems for the engineer and M.Sc. levels. His current research interests include microwave and applied signal processing with special attention to radio frequency and millimeter wave identification technologies, backscattered modulations, energy harvesting, sensors and antennas. He has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is a member of several TPC and serves as expert-reviewer for national and international scientific committees and conferences including IEEE, IET, Cambridge, PIER, Hindawi, Eurasip, URSI. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal on RFID and IEEE Sensors Letters, and he is the founder and Editor in Chief of Wireless Powering journal by ISTE OpenScience. He is the vice-chair of the URSI Commission C, France