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Maxim Zhadobov is a Senior Research Scientist at the IETR / CNRS, France. He received the PhD degree in bioelectromagnetics in 2006 and HDR in 2016 from the University of Rennes, France. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Biomedical Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, he rejoined IETR as a CNRS Researcher. Since 2017, he was in charge of the Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Media (eWAVES) research team and a member of the Scientific Council of the IETR. Currently he is co-director of Waves &  Signals Department.
His main research activities and expertise are in the field of innovative biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields and associated technologies. He co-authored 5 book chapters > 100 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals, and > 200 contributions to conferences and workshops worldwide. His review article in the Int. J. Microwave Wireless Techn. has been the most cited paper since 2016. A paper published by his research group in 2019 is in “Journal Top 100” of Nature Scientific Reports. He has been involved in 31 research projects (16 as PI).  Dr. Zhadobov was a TPC/LOC member and/or session organizer at international conferences, including BioEM2025, IEEE AP-S/URSI 2024, URSI AT-RASC 2024, AES 2023, BioEM 2023, EUMW2022, IEEE IMBioC 2022, AT-AP-RASC 2022, BioEM 2019, EuMW 2019, IEEE iWEM 2017, MobiHealth 2015–2017, BodyNets 2016, and IMWS-Bio 2014. He is president of URSI FR Commission K, member of IEEE TC95.4 and IEC TC106, and served as elected member of EBEA Council from 2017 to 2022. He is also Senior member IEEE and has been an active member of review boards of more than 15 international journals and conferences. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology and served as a guest editor of Applied Sciences and Sensors journals. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee URSI Com-K and has been acting as an expert at research councils worldwide. His teaching activities include lecturing at European School of Antennas (ESoA), 5G PhD School (IT), Uppsala University (SE), University of Rennes, and INSA (FR). He received Research & Innovation BPGO Award in 2022, CNRS Bronze Medal in 2018, EBEA Award for Excellence in Bioelectromagnetics in 2015, and Brittany’s Young Scientist Award in 2010.