Gabriele Falciasecca received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Bologna in 1969. In 1970, he joined the laboratories of the
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Pontecchio Marconi, where he was involved
in the Italian research program on millimeter waveguide
communication systems. Since 1973, he has been Assistant Professor
and Lecturer in microwave techniques at the Institute of
Electronics, University of Bologna (later Department of Electronics
and Computer Science - DEIS, and now Department of Electrical,
Electronic and Information Engineering "G. MArconi" - DEI). Since
1980, he has been a full Professor. From 1994 to 2000, he also was
appointed Director of the DEIS. From 2001 to 2007 he has been
President of the Science, Technology and Enterprise Consortium for
Research and Innovation of the Italian Region Emilia-Romagna
(ASTER); from 2008 to 2013 he has been then designeted President of
the Company Lepida S.p.A., whose establishment has been promoted by
the region Emilia Romagna for the development of communication
networks and services of public interest within the region. He has
been Chairman of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation from 1997 to 2019. He is the
author of more than 200 technical papers. His main fields of
research are applied electromagnetics, mobile radio and wireless
systems, radio propagation models, remote sensing and positioning
techniques.
