Alberto Ortolani received his Master’s Degree (cum laude) in Physics from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1995 and his Ph.D. in physical modeling for environmental protection from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2011. From 1997 to 1998, he worked with SMA Company (Systems for meteorology and the environment), Florence, on satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In 1997, he won a three-year Marie Curie Grant to work on astrophysics, then declined to continue his career in remote sensing. From 1998 to 2002, he worked with the Foundation for the Climate and Sustainability (FCS), Florence, on remote sensing applications for the sea and the atmosphere. Since 2002,he has been with the Institute for the BioEconomy (formerly the Institute for Biometeorology), of CNR, Florence, where he is a Senior Researcher. Since 1997, his research focus has been in the framework of Consorzio LaMMA (formerly the LaMMA project), Florence, Italy, where he is assigned by CNR and is the Head of the Atmospheric Research Division, focused on project developments in satellite, radar, and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) meteorology, atmospheric modeling, and data assimilation, as well as meteo-based services for maritime transportation. Since 2018, he has been teaching Physics of the Atmosphere at the Master’s Program in Physical and Astrophysical Sciences with the University of Florence. He has also been involved in the NEFOCAST Project.