David Gregoratti (Italy, 1980) received his MSc (with honours) in Telecommunications Engineering from the "Politecnico di Torino" in Turin, Italy, in 2005. From March 2003 to December 2004 he was at the "Institut Eurécom", in Sophia Antipolis, France. From September 2003 to September 2004 he was in the DEA SICOM (Advanced Studies Degree in Signal and Digital Communications) program of the "Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis", in Sophia Antipolis, France. In 2004 he spent six months as an intern at Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego, CA, USA, where he worked on his thesis.

Since January 2006 he has joined the CTTC PhD program and is now a PhD candidate at the "Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya" in Barcelona, Spain. In this context, he has also been granted with a scholarship from the Catalan Government. His work, under the supervision of Dr. Xavier Mestre, regards the application of random matrix theory to physical layer aspects of cooperative communications.