IEEE senior member, M. Sc. cum laude (1988) in electronic engineering, IEEE senior member, full professor within “Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria”. H index (Google Scholar): 42, 8500 citations, five conference awards, and six patent applications. He is reviewer and editor of several scientific journals and a member of scientific-technical committees of international workshops and symposia on Radar and Earth Observation (EO).
He is co-founder of Polimi spin-off Aresys (2003), targeting SAR, Radar, and geophysics applications. He is a past member of the Technical-scientific Committee of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), national delegate of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). He is member of ASI MAG for GEO-SAR mission.
He has long-going experience in Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar. He participated in the design, calibration, and quality assessment of Italian, European, and Argentinean Spaceborne SAR missions, cooperating with the national and European Space Agencies for 20 years.
His interests focus on innovative radar-based concepts, MIMO LEO SAR formations, ground-based Radars, satellite Radars for environmental monitoring, security, and civil applications, and SARs for automotive applications. He is presently the prime investigator of the geostationary SAR mission Hydroterra+, candidate Earth Explorer-12.