CURRICULUM

BIOGRAPHY. Prof. Marzano received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering (1988) and the Ph.D. degree (1993) in Applied Electromagnetics and Electrophysical Sciences, both from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. In 1992 he was a visiting scientist at Florida State University (FSU), Tallahassee, FL. In 1993 he collaborated with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (now ISAC), National Council of Research (CNR), Rome, Italy. From 1994 to 1996, he was with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Rome, Italy, as a post-doctorate researcher. After being a lecturer at the University of Perugia, Italy, in 1997 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of L’Aquila, Italy teaching courses on electromagnetic fields as an Assistant Professor. In 1999 he was at Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, as a visiting scientist. In 2002 he got the qualification to Associate Professorship and has co-founded the Centre of Excellence on Telesensing of the Environment and Model Prediction of Severe events (CETEMPS) of the University of L’Aquila, becoming the head of the Satellite and Radar Remote Sensing Laboratory (which he still coordinates). In 2005 he joined the Dept. of Electronic Engineering, now Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy where he presently teaches courses on antennas, propagation, and remote sensing as a full professor since 2019. In 2009 he was nominated President of the HIMET company, L’Aquila and Rome, Italy. Since 2007 he has been acting as vice-director of the CETEMPS Centre of Excellence of the University of L’Aquila, a research center with more than 40 affiliated persons, and was nominated Director of CETEMPS in March 2013, renewed in 2016, 2019 and 2021. In 2013 he got the Full Professorship national habilitation (ASN) in the field of Electromagnetic field (ING-INF/02) and Atmospheric Physics (FIS/06) as well as in Geophysics (GEO/12) in 2018. Since June 2013 (renewed in 2016) till 2019, he has been acting as President of the Didactic Area of Electronic Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome including both undergraduate and graduate programs, being vice-chair since 2019. Since 2018 he is the vice-chair of the Master program Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology (LMAST), a joint MSc program between Sapienza University of Rome and University of L'Aquila. Since 2017 he is the Chair of the Central-North Chapter of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing society.

RESEARCH. In 2020 Prof. Marzano was inserted in the World's Top 2% Scientists database of Stanford University (USA). His current research concerns passive and active remote sensing of the atmosphere from ground-based, airborne, and space-borne platforms, with a particular focus on clouds and precipitation using microwave, millimeter-wave and visible-infrared data, development of inversion methods, radiative transfer modeling of absorbing and scattering media, radar meteorology for rain, wind and ash retrieval and synthetic aperture radar data processing for atmospheric and land-use applications. He is also deeply involved in electromagnetic propagation studies, including e.m. field scintillation and rain fading modeling, data analysis along satellite microwave and millimeter-wave links and free space optical links. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Centre of Excellence in Remote Sensing and Hydro-Meteorology (CETEMPS) in L’Aquila (Italy), the CIMA Research Foundation in Savona (Italy), the Centre of Research on Hydro-geological Risk (CERI) in Colleferro (Rome, Italy) and the Centre of Research in Aerospace Sapienza (CRAS). Within 2001-2005 he was the Italian national delegate for the European COST actions n. 720 and n. 280; since 2008 he is the national delegate for the 5-year European COST Action project ES0702 “EGCliMet” and COST Action project IC0802 “PropTNEO”. Since 2010 he is a member of the European Volcanic Ash Cloud Expert Group (EVACEG) and since 2011 he is the national vice-delegate for the 5-year European COST Action project IC1101 “OpticWISE” and co-chairman of its physical modeling working group. In 2009 he became a member of the Science team of the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM), whereas in 2012 he has been nominated a member of the EUMETSAT Precipitation Science Advisory Group (P-SAG) and in 2013 member of the PostEPS MWI-ICI Science Advisory Group (MWI-ICI SAG). In 2015 he has been appointed Commission F co-chair of the URSI GF Working Group on Middle Atmosphere (Stratosphere and Mesosphere). Since Oct. 2015 he has been included in the Earth Observation Expert Committee of the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Since 2021 he is the National substitute delegate for the 5-year European COST Action project CA19111 “NewFOCUS”.

PUBLICATIONS. Dr. Marzano has published more than 170 papers on refereed international Journals, edited 6 journal special issues, more than 25 contributions to international Book Chapters, more than 300 Extended Abstracts on international Conference Proceedings and more than 200 Short Abstracts in national and international conferences. He is the Editor, together with G. Visconti, of the book “Remote sensing of atmosphere and ocean from space: models, instruments and techniques”, Kluwer Acad. Plub., Dordrecht (NL), 2002 and together with D. Cimini and G. Visconti of the book “Integrated Ground-Based Observing Systems Applications: for Climate, Meteorology, and Civil Protection”, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, D), 2010. In 2010-13 he has been Section Editor of the Springer’s “Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing”, published in 2014. He co-published a university textbook on “Antennas foundation and electromagnetic radiation”, Carocci 2011 (IT) in Italian. He is a reviewer for the major international journals in remote sensing and radiopropagation (e.g., IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., IEEE Ant. Propagat., IEE Ant. Propogat., AGU Radio Sci., AMS J. Appl. Meteor., AMS J. Atm. Science, AMS J. Ocean. Atm. Tech). In 2005 and 2007 he has been Guest Co-Editor of the MicroRad04 and MicroRad06 Special Issues for IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sensing. In 2012-13 he has acted as a Guest Editor of the special issue on tropospheric profiling for EGU Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT). From January 2004 to June 2014, he has been acting as an Associated Editor of IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL) and since mid of 2014 he is Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS). Since 2011 he is also Associate Editor of EGU Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) journal and Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology (BAST).

ORGANIZATION. In 2000 Dr. Marzano was the director of the first edition of the International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS), held in L’Aquila and now at its 13th edition. In 2004 he has been appointed Co-Director of the Fourth Hydro-meteorological Radar School held during the 6th EGS Plinius Conference. He has been the Co-chairman of the Workshop on “Integrated Ground-Based Remote Sensing Stations for Atmospheric Profiling” held in L’Aquila on 19-21 June 2002, the Co-chairman of the Congress “Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad’04)”, held in Roma on 24-27 Feb. 2004 and the Co-chairman of the 8th Management Committee of the project meeting COST-280 on “Fade impairment techniques”, held in Roma on 4-5 Nov. 2004. He is the Co-Chairman of the 9th International Symposium of Tropospheric Profiling (ISTP9), held in L’Aquila (Italy) on 7-9 Sept. 2012. In 2013 he was the director of 13th ISSOAS-2013 international summer school on “Weather forecasting: from science to public”, held in L’Aquila (Italy) on 9-13 Sept. 2013. In 2015 he organized and co-chaired the first Radar Meteorology Italian Conference (RadMet.IT) held in Rome, 6-7 July, 2015 (RadMet2015.IT) and then its second edition on 3-4 July 2017 (RadMet2017.IT). On 23 March 2017 he co-organized and hosted the renewed national celebration of the World Meteorological Day at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Dr. Marzano is a current member of the Steering Committees of the Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications (MicroRad) since 2006 and the European Radar Conference (ERAD) since 2002 as well as has been part of Technical Program Committee of several editions of the International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) and European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). Since 2018 he is co-organizing the World Meteorological Day national celebration in Rome (Italy) as well as since 2019 the OltreMet annual conference in L'Aquila (Italy).

TEACHING. Dr. Marzano has been teaching at University of L’Aquila, at University of Perugia and at Sapienza University of Rome courses on Electromagnetic Fields, Antennas, Propagation and Remote sensing of the Atmosphere. He has been a tutor of more than 150 undergraduate students, more than 50 graduate students and 19 Ph.D. students. He co-published a textbook on Antennas and radiopropagation in 2011. He has been a member of the Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of L’Aquila, the Doctorate in Environmental Monitoring of the University of Basilicata and is currently a member of the Doctorate in ICT Radar and Remote Sensing of the Sapienza University of Rome. Dr. Marzano has been a lecturer on remote sensing techniques and wave propagation at several National and International Conferences and Schools. As mentioned, since June 2013 to 2019 he has been acting as President of the Didactic Area of Electronic Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome with more than 600 undergraduate and graduate students and 50 professors, being vice-chair since 2019. Since 2018 he is the vice-chair of the Master program Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology (LMAST), a joint MSc program between Sapienza University of Rome and University of L'Aquila.

PROJECTS. Since 1991 Dr. Marzano has been participating to several international research projects (e.g., GPCP-AIP-2 , GPCP-AIP3, NASA-PIP2, NASA-PIP3, EU-COST-712, EU-COST-255, and recently EU-COST-ES0702 in 2008, EU-COST-IC802 in 2008), European-Union funded projects (e.g., STORM within 3th EU-FP in 1990, MEFFE within 3th EU-FP 1993, EuroTRMM within 4th EU-FP in 1996, EuRAINSAT within 5th EU-FP in 1999, RiskAWARE within INTERREG III-B CADSES in 2004, HydroRad within the 7th EU-FP in 2009), and ESA-funded research studies related to meteorological satellite missions (e.g., DMSP, TRMM, ENVISAT, MSG, and recently SAR-Metawave and Wband-Deep-Space in 2008). He was involved within the ENVISAT calibration team in 2001 and Co-PI within Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and EUMETSAT research projects (e.g., SatPrecip with ASI in 1999, Scatterometry within ASI in 2000, MeditRain within ASI in 2000, RAM within GNDCI-CNR in 2003, Eurainsat-MSG within EUMETSAT in 2005, Proscenio within DPC in 2006. He has been the principal investigator of the IDRA project within DPC within 2007-2012, FLORAD satellite mission with ASI in 2008, HYDRORAD project within EC FP7 calls during 2009-2011, HYDREX within EC FP/MarieCurie call within 2010-2012, ADRIARadNet and CapRadNet within IPA-Adriatic call within 2012-2016). He is also a consultant for national engineering companies, international agencies and Italian ministries, involved in the design and evaluation of information engineering and remote sensing systems. In 2002 he contributed to the planning and design of the new national radar network within a project of the Italian Dept. of Civil Protection and since then he is a member of the Italian Technical Committee on the National Radar Network. Since 2006 he was the principal investigator (PI) of the 3+3 year IDRA project about hydro-meteorological modeling and radar meteo-volcanology, sponsored by the National Department of Civil Protection (DPC), Rome, Italy and renewed in 2009 till 2012. Since 2006 he is also PI for CETEMPS of the 9-year Region Abruzzo project (L’Aquila, Italy) about regional civil protection support to hydro-geological risk decisions. In 2008 he coordinated as Principal Investigator the Phase-A feasibility study of the satellite constellation small-mission FLORAD project about the exploitation of Flower elliptical-orbit constellations for tropospheric profiling at regional scale, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and involving the major information-technology Italian industries. Since 2009 he is PI of the 2-year RainXSAR project, sponsored by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and AtmoXSAR, sponsored by the German Aerospace Agency (DLR, Germany) on atmospheric effects upon X-SAR measurements. In 2009 he has become member of Science Team of the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measuring (GPM) mission with a proposal on “MicroRainSAR: Precipitation retrieval from X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation over land at micro-alpha scale”. In 2009 he coordinated the 2-year European project HYDRORAD with 3 small-medium enterprises and 4 European partners from Italy, Greece and Cyprus about the exploitation of low-cost X-band polarimetric mini-radar networks. In 2010 he was coordinator of the biannual European Marie Curie project HYDREX about X-band radar hydrometeorology. In 2012-15 he was the coordinator of the 2.5-year European project ADRIARadNet, involving 7 European partners from Italy, Croatia and Albania, about the development of hydrometeorological data decision support systems in the Adriatic basin, followed in 2016 by the CapRadNet international project and in 2018 by the AdriaMORE international project. Since then the research projects have been developing within international (e.g., ESA, EUMETSAT, EOARD, Interreg) and national contexts (e.g., ASI, MIUR, Italian Regions), as documented here. In 2005 Dr. Marzano co-funded in L’Aquila (Italy) the start-up HIMET srl (High Innovation in Meteorology and Environmental Technology), a spin-off company of CETEMPS. Since the beginning, he was part of the HIMET Board of directors and in 2009 he became its President, a role kept until February 2013.

AWARDS. Dr. Marzano was the recipient of a fellowship award from Elettronica S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) for research on microwave radiometry in 1990. In 1993 he received the Young Scientist Award of XXIV General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). In 1998 he was the recipient of the Alan Berman Publication Award (ARPAD) from the Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, USA). Since 2003 he has been a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) within the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, whereas since 2000 he has been a member of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEm) and since 2010 a member of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP). Since 2005 he has been the Secretary and then vice-Chair of the IEEE GRS29 Chapter (North-Central Italy), becoming its Chair on Oct. 2017. In 2012 he has been nominated Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS). In 2015 he received the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Group Achievement Award from NASA (Washington, DC, USA). In 2015 he has been nominated Fellow of IEEE for “contributions to microwave remote sensing in meteorology and volcanology”. In 2008 he received the Best Paper Award from the EGU-Plinius2008 Conference (Nicosia, Cyprus), whereas in 2009 he received the Best Paper Awards from the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP2009), held in Berlin (Germany). In 2011 he received the Best Presentation Award from the EGU-Plinius2011 Conference (Savona, Italy). In 2016 he received the Best paper award from the ERAD2016 conference held in Antalya (Turkey), whereas in 2017 the Best paper award from the SPIE2017 conference held in Warsaw (Poland). See also https://www.alb-arte.it.