Andrea Madaschi was born in Seriate, in the province of Bergamo, in 1991. He obtained his high school diploma as an electronics and telecommunications technician in 2010 from the “E. Majorana” technical institute in Seriate. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2014, his Master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2018, and his PhD in Information Engineering in 2023, all from the same university. From 2023 to 2026, he worked as a technologist at the Policom Lab of Politecnico di Milano. He currently holds the position of research contractor at the same Policom Lab, working in the field of fiber sensing.