I was born in L'Aquila, Italy, in 1978. I received the Laurea degree (cum laude and distinction) in Electronic Engineering from the University of L'Aquila, Italy, in April 2003, the qualification to the profession of Engineer from the University of L'Aquila, Italy, in June 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, in January 2007. From August 2002 to January 2008, I was with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, and the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS (Design Methodologies of Embedded Controllers, Wireless Interconnect and Systems-on-Chip), where I was first undergraduate and graduate student, then Ph.D. student, and subsequently Post-Doctoral Researcher in 2007. Since February 2008, I have been a permanent Research Associate with the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) - Department of Access Technologies, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.

From August 2002 to February 2003, I was with the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS and the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, doing research on the analysis and design of Ultra Wide Band digital receiver architectures. From April 2003 to October 2003, I was with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, working on channel sounding and modeling for Ultra Wide Band systems, a research program funded by Thales Italia S.p.A. - Land and Joint Systems Division of Advanced Studies. In November 2003, I was awarded a three years scholarship by the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy and Thales Italia S.p.A. - Land and Joint Systems Division of Advanced Studies to conduct research on physical layer related problems for Ultra Wide Band wireless communication systems, including channel modeling, data detection, and synchronization. Under a research grant awarded by the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS, from September 2006 to December 2006 I was a Visiting Scholar in the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG), at the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Virginia, USA, where I was involved in the analysis and design of ranging and positioning algorithms for Ultra Wide Band Body Area Networks for medical applications. From May 2006 to January 2008, I was involved in the research project "Impulse Radio (Ultra Wide Band) for Military Applications (IRMA)" funded by Thales Italia S.p.A. - Land and Joint Systems Division of Advanced Studies, where I conducted research on the analysis and design of physical layer issues for Ultra Wide Band communications, and where I was co-leader of the work package "Physical Layer Design for Communication". From January 2007 to January 2008, I was a Research Affiliate (Post-Doc) with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering and the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS, University of L'Aquila, Italy, doing research on the analysis and design of cooperative wireless communication systems, opportunistic communications, and cognitive radio.

Since February 2008, I have been involved in national (Spanish and Italian), European, and industrial projects in the field of Ultra Wide Band technology (IRMA: Impulse Radio for Military Applications - Phase II; and ULAND®: UWB demonstration model), Cooperative Wireless Communications (PERSEO: Cooperative and cross layer techniques for wireless sensor networks), Cognitive Radio (LOOP: Coexistence and optimization for LTE-RAN and WAN), Vehicular-to-Vehicular Communications (m-Via: Vehicular Networks and Services). In July 2008, I was recipient of a two-year research grant, as a Principal Investigator, awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spanish Government), under the Torres Quevedo Program 2008 (PTQ-08-01-06437) to conduct research on the field of "Cooperative localization of Wireless Sensor Networks in GPS-denied environments using Ultra Wide Band technology" within the TIMI (Intelligent Multimodal Transportation of Goods) project. Since November 2003, I have been the co-supervisor of 1 Ph.D. student and more than 22 students during their Laurea, Master, and Bachelor thesis works, and have been teaching assistant for Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication Engineering courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

In December 2004, I was co-founder of WEST Aquila S.r.l. (Wireless Embedded Systems Technologies L'Aquila), a R&D Spin-Off of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering and the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS, where I currently hold the position of Senior Research Engineer in wireless communications, and where I am mainly involved in the analysis and design of improved algorithms for data detection and synchronization for IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.15.4, and IEEE 802.15.3 communication standards (multi-standard platform), and Software Defined Radio receiver design.

I am an Associate Member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society, and serve as reviewer for transaction journals and international conferences. I am a member of the Center of Excellence in Research DEWS, and a member of the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) in Italy. In 2006, I served as Session Chairman in the IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wideband; in 2007 and 2008 I served in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 6th and 7th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM); and currently I am in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the 2009 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Wireless Access Track, the 2009 IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), Physical Layer Track, the 2009 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Wireless Communications and Selected Areas in Communications Symposia, and the 2009 International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA). I have given some 25 talks in various international conferences, and co-authored some 50 journal and conference papers in the area of wireless communication systems, Ultra Wide Band technology, cooperative wireless communications, distributed localization in wireless sensor networks, and cognitive radio. My main research interests are in the area of communication theory, and wireless communication systems design. My current research activity is mainly focused on Ultra Wide Band and Spread Spectrum communication techniques, detection and synchronization theory, cooperative wireless communications, cognitive radio, and access technologies for wireless systems.