Graduated Master Students
Luca Rodio
Luca Rodio received, from the Polytechnic of Bari, the Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering in December 2017, discussing the Master thesis “Study, analysis and simulation of hybrid photonic/microwave technologies for satellite telecommunication (SATCOM) systems”. As master student, he spent a period of study at Thales Alenia Space in Rome, Italy. During this period he was engaged in research on the suitability of photonic devices to aid or fully replace typical RF subsystems on board Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) payloads. From March 2018 to May 2019 he worked as Network and Security Consultant for Spike Reply in the field of Network Engineering. From June to August 2019 he worked as Junior Radio Network Designer for Altran Italy in the field of Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Systems. Since September 2019, Luca has held the position of Junior System Engineer at Thales Alenia Space. Currently he is dealing with R&D activities related to ESA research frames involving also photonics and optics.
Giuseppe Giannino
Giuseppe Giannino was a Master degree student in Telecommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Bari. He spent 5 months at CIT – Cork Institute of Technology and Tyndall National Institute (Cork – Ireland) from 25th July 2017 to 23th December 2017 to perform his master thesis titled “Design of silicon-rich silicon nitride based nanowire for nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer” having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Marco Grande and William Whelan-Curtin (Cork Institute of Technology). He was involved also in an ERASMUS+ KA107 program at Kazan National Research Technical University (named after A. N. Tupolev – Kazan Aviation Institute) from 19th February 2018 to 19th June 2018, here the main topics faced were Antenna design, Radiophotonic, Mobile Communication and MIMO Wireless Systems. His main research interests have been optical and RF communications, photonics and electromagnetic fields.” Giuseppe obtained the master degree on July 26, 2018. Since September 2018, he is HW e SW Integration and Validation Engineer at Angel Company, Sitael –Mola di Bari.
Giuseppe Giannino
Alessio Tedesco was born in Taranto on July 18, 1992 and lived in Taranto where he took the Bachelor Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering in 2011 at Politecnico di Bari. Then Alessio moved to Bari to keep on with Master Degree course in Telecommunication Engineering. During that years he spent 5 months at Cork Institute of Technology and Tyndall National Institute in Ireland hosted in CAPPA group to carry on his master thesis titled “Silicon nitride-based resonant structures for sensing at 1000 nm” having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Marco Grande and William Whelan-Curtin (Cork Institute of Technology). . Alessio refined his knowledges during the Erasmus + KA107 program in Kazan – Russia at Kazan National Research Technical University (named after A. N. Tupolev – Kazan Aviation Institute) for 4 mouths. In that experience he studied and contributed to the research on Antenna Design, Radiophotonics, Mobile Communication and MIMO Wireless Systems. Alessio graduated on July 26, 2018. From September 2018 to January 2020 he was a Software Engineer at Maserati- Modena. From January 2020 to April 2020 he acted as Project Chief at Maserati – Modena. Since May 2020 he is HIL engineer at Metasystem – Reggio Emilia.
Bernardino Quaranta
Bernardino Quaranta received, from the Polytechnic of Bari, the Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering in October 2018 discussing the Master thesis “Analysis and simulation of a satellite processed payload implementing FFT functionality in Photonic/Microwave technology” having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Marco Grande and Vincenzo Schena (Thales Alenia Space – Italy) . As master student, he spent a period of study in Thales Alenia Space Italy. During this period he was engaged in research on the possibility of using photonic technology in satellite payloads, especially for signal processing purposes. In particular, he investigated as a candidate implementation in photonic technology one of the key functionality used in payloads of all the major satellite fields, that is the FFT. It has a fundamental role, related to the necessity of analysing the signal spectrum directly on-board of the satellite. Since December 2018 he has held the position of Navigation System Engineer at Thales Alenia Space Italy, following activities in the field of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) both in Ground and Space segments. He is specialized in the time&frequency engineering applied to those systems, especially in Galileo, the European GNSS. Indeed, the position accuracy of all the GNSSs is highly dependent on the precision of the time signal. Actually, innovative timing algorithms and systems are one of the main topics on which research groups and companies working on GNSS are focusing on. Bernardino is following this trend in both the algorithm design (for detecting and correcting typical atomic clocks anomalies and improve their performance) and system level (for introducing and testing new system paradigms) points of view.
Antonio Lofrese
Antonio Lofrese received, from the Polytechnic University of Bari, the Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering in October, 2018 discussing the Master thesis “Development of a semiconductor bonding technique for hybrid external cavity lasers based on Si3 N4 Bragg gratings” having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Marco Grande, William Whelan-Curtin (Cork Institute of Technology) , Simone Iadanza (Cork Institute of Technology). As master student, from September to March, he participated to the Erasmus Mobility Student Program in Granada, Spain at E.T.S. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering. From April 2018 to September 2018 he spent a period of study finalized to produce his master thesis at the Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland. During this period he was engaged in research on the realization of a new bonding technique for light sources in the C and L band for applications relating to telecommunications as transceivers in datacenters. Since March 2019, Antonio is a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, where he deals with relativistic laser-plasma physics and advanced plasma optics. Currently he is dealing with the aspects of relativistic induced transparency (RIT), investigating the process of energy absorption in the interaction of intense laser pulses with thin solid targets.
Manuela Spina
Manuela Spina received, from the Polytechnic University of Bari, the Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering in February 2020, discussing the Master thesis “Design, fabrication and characterization of reflective metasurfaces for mmwave applications”, having as Supervisors Marco Grande, Valeria Marrocco (CNR-STIIMA) and Vito Basile (CNR-STIIMA). As master student, she spent a period of study at the laboratory nPEG of Polytechnic University of Bari. During this period, she was engaged in research on 5G communications and smart antennas. In particular, she has realized air-channel-based unit cells aimed at phase control surfaces for mmwave applications. Moreover she has deepened her knowledge on the additive manufacturing technologies: fused deposition modeling (FDM) and stereolithography (SLA). From November 2019 to February 2020 she worked as internship student at CNR STIIMA in Bari. Currently she is working as software engineer at SM-Optics (part of SIAE MICROELETTRONICA GROUP) company in Bari.
Renato F. Russo
Renato F. Russo received, from the Polytechnic University of Bari, the Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering in March 2013 discussing the Master thesis “Fabrication of channel KYW: YB3+ waveguides by means of Focused Ion Beam”, having as Supervisors Antonella D’Orazio, Marco Grande and Sonia Garcia Blanco (University of Twente). As master student, he spent a period of 6 months of study at the IOMS Group Labs at University of Twente (Netherlands). During this period, he was engaged in research on optimizing and effectively working on plasmonic waveguides, using technologies as Focused Ion Beam and Ion Beam Etching, which represent the state of the art in nanotechnology fabrication. From April 2013 to April 2015 he worked as mobile telecommunication engineer at Altran Italia, consultant for Vodafone Italy. From April 2015 to February 2016 he worked as senior business analyst at Business Integration Partners (BIP), consultant for Vodafone Italy Since February 2016 till now, Renato has held the position of Business Development and Solution Consultant at Fastweb S.P.A. Currently he is dealing with designing and scouting network, IT and cyber security solutions in executive and Top-rated Enterprise environments and helping companies to be more resilient against cyber-attacks. He is the co-author of the paper “Photonic Integration and Fabrication Technologies for on-chip active nano devices in double tungstate gain material” published as proceeding of international conference.