Short Biography
Andrea Modenini was born in Parma, Italy, in September 1986. He received the MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (cum laude) on December 13, 2010 and the Ph.D. in January 2014 from the University of Parma.
Since March 2015, he is at the European Space Agency in the ESTEC site (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), currently working as TT&C Communications Systems Engineer, supporting ESA Earth Observation and Scientific satellite missions, research and development of TT&C units, techniques, including the command and control (C2) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He is also contributing to the education in the field of TT&C as tutor of ESA trainees. Finally, he is involved in several standardization activities for satellite telecommunications in the framework of ECSS, SFCG, and CCSDS. For the latter is Chair of the Coding & Synchronization working group.
In 2014 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (DII) in Professor Giulio Colavolpe research group. In spring 2012 he was a visiting PhD student in the group of Prof. Fredrik Rusek of the Elektro- och informationsteknik of the University of Lund, Sweden, for research on channel shortening detection for spectrally-efficient modulations.
In June 2014 he won the award issued by GTTI for the best PhD thesis, in the field of telecommunications, discussed in Italy.
He served also as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for several international conferences/workshops, and as TPC chair and main organizer of the international workshop on TT&C 2022, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
