Hypolito José Kalinowski received a B.Sc. in Physics from Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), Brazil. He retired as Full Professor at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná after occupying permanent positions at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and PUC-RIO. Prof. Kalinowski took a pos-doc stay at Centro Studi and Laboratori Telecommunicazione (CSELT), Italy, and he spent sabbatical terms at Universidade de Aveiro and Insituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, as well as at ENEA-C.R. Frascati, Italy. He was also a Senior Fellow of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from 2008 to 2013. Prof. Kalinowski received the “Attilio Giarola” Medal of Scientific Achievements from the Brazilian Society for Microwaves and Optoelectronics (SBMO). He is member of SBMO, SPIE and OSA. In 2015 Prof. Kalinowski chaired the organization of OFS-24 (Curitiba, Brazil).