Dr. Alessio Di Simone received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. Laurea degrees (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in information technology and electrical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 2011, 2013 and 2017, respectively. In 2016, he joined the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, as a Visiting Researcher. In 2017, 2018 and 2023, he was a Visiting Researcher with the NATO Science and Technology Organization, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), La Spezia, Italy. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, where he has been an Assistant Professor of electromagnetic fields since 2022. His main research interests are in the field of microwave remote sensing and electromagnetics including modeling of the electromagnetic scattering from natural surfaces, urban areas and artificial targets and simulation and processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) data. Dr. Di Simone received the Prize for the Best Master Thesis in Remote Sensing by the IEEE South Italy Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter in 2015 and the 2022 Best Young Researcher in Oceanic Engineering Award from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Italy Chapter.