Guido Masiello received his master's degree in Physics from the Federico II University of Naples in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the School of Engineering of the University of Basilicata, and he works on Applied Spectroscopy topics developing physical radiative transfer models for the inversion of the thermodynamic state of the Earth's atmosphere. He is a co-investigator in various projects in the area of high spectral resolution infrared sounders from satellites (far and thermal, from 100 to 3.5 microns). He was an elected member of the International Radiation Commission and a visiting scientist at EUMETSAT headquarters. He published his research in more than 100 publications, and he acts as a reviewer for several international journals of optics, physics, and atmospheric science, and for Italian and international research funding agencies.