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CAREER

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Actual position

Period: from September 2022 to nowdays

Position: Responsible for R&D 1337 Lab

Company, location: SIAE MICROELETTRONICA – Cologno Monzese (MI), Italy

Specific task:

  • Developing innovative planar and non-planar passive devices up to D-band;

  • Developing high-power RF line-ups for O-RAN applications;

  • Responsible for European fundend projects and activities.

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Previous working experience

Period: from May 1st, 2017 to August 2022

Position: Microwave and mm-wave passive designer

Company, location: SIAE MICROELETTRONICA – Cologno Monzese (MI), Italy

Specific task:

  • Design of waveguide and planar passive components for E-band (71-86 GHz) frequency band;

  • Exploiting additive 3D printing manufacturing technique for microwave and mm-wave application;

  • Feasibility study on new topologies for a high gain E-band steerable antenna for point-to-point communication.

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Period: from November 1st, 2015 to April 30th, 2017.

Position: Hardware and RF engineer

Company, location: Azcom Technology – Rozzano, Italy

Specific task:

  • Design of RF transmission and receiver chains for small cells and base station oriented towards the LTE standards;

  • Testing and validation of RF transceivers and analog front end boards for 3GPP standards.

 

Background skills

  • Design, realization and testing of microwave and mm-wave passive devices adopting both waveguide and planar technologies;

  • EM characterization of standard and non-standard materials;

  • Microwave passive devices based on the 3D printing technology;

  • Development of a manufacturing technique for paper-based RF and microwave components;

  • Preliminary design of mm-wave ultra-wideband imaging radar for breast cancer detection;

  • Design and testing of graphene-based microwave attenuators in cooperation with the Italian INFN.

EDUCATION

University career

Period: from November 2012 to October 2015

University: University of Pavia – Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering.

Affiliation: Microwave laboratory

Degree course: PhD in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Graduation date: January 12th, 2016

Thesis title: Substrate integrated waveguide components for the Internet of Things: novel structures, materials, and manufacturing techniques. Download the PhD thesis in .pdf format [ENG].

 

Abroad experience

Period: from December 2014 to April 2015

University: guest researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA, USA

Affiliation and advisor: Adaptive Techniques in Hybrid Electromagnetic Numerical Applications (ATHENA) laboratory – Prof. Manos M. Tentzeris

Research purposes: exploiting the 3D printing technology for microwave and mm-wave passive devices. Narrowband and wideband EM characterization of commercial available materials for 3D printers.

 

Degree courses

Period: from October 2010 to September 2012

University: University of Pavia

Degree course: Master degree in electronic engineering – microelectronic curriculum

Thesis title: Quasi-optical aberration analysis for Sardinia Radio Telescope

Graduation date and mark: September 20th, 2012 - 110/110

Research purposes: Analysis of the beam aberration phenomenon for the Sardinia Radio Telescope, a 64 m Gregorian antenna.

 

Period: from October 2007 to September 2010

University: University of Pavia

Degree course: Bachelor degree in electronic and telecommunication engineering

Thesis title: Design and implementation of multilayer dichroic mirrors

Graduation date and mark: December 15th, 2010 - 101/110.

Research purposes: Design, realization and validation of a low-cost double layer dichroic mirror for satellite communication purpose.

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