Prof. Stefano Perna

Stefano Perna received a Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electronic and telecommunication engineering, both from the Università degli Studi di  Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. In 2003, 2005, and 2006, he received grants from the CNR  (Italian National Research Council) to be spent at the Istituto per il  Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell’Ambiente (IREA), Naples, for research in the field of remote sensing. Since 2006, he has been with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria (DI) of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Naples, where he is currently a Professor of electromagnetic fields. He currently also holds the position of Adjunct Researcher at IREA-CNR, Naples. Since 2015, he has collaborated with the Argentinian National Council of Technical and Scientific Research (CONICET) on activities relevant to the focusing and processing of airborne and spaceborne SAR data. He is responsible for several research projects relevant to the realization and testing of novel radar systems, as well as the focusing and processing of airborne SAR data. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of the PLATINO-1 SAR mission funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). He is a senior IEEE member. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and as Academic Editor for MDPI Remote Sensing.