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Sandro M. Radicella
Name: Sandro M. Radicella
Title: Head of the Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory
Office:
 GGH, 2nd floor
Phone:
 +39 040 2240 331
E-mail:
 rsandro@ictp.it
URL:
 http://arpl.ictp.it/people/radicella.html

Education:

PhD

Research interests:

  • Ionosphere electron concentration and total electron content modeling
    - NeQuick model validation and improvement
    - International Reference Ionosphere Task Force Activities
    - Experimental data analysis
  • Ionospheric scintillation
    - Experimental data analysis a model validation
    - Satellite navigation systems effects
  • Wireless Networking
    - Training on the use of 802.11 Spread Spectrum wireless LAN technology
    - HF and VHF/UHF packet radio technology for long distance data trasmission

Biography:

Head of the Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory (ARPL) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) since 1989. He has authored and co-authored more than 130 papers in the fields of aeronomy and radiocommunications. Formerly he was principal researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina. In that country he organized and directed for 20 years the National Program of Radiopropagation (PRONARP).
The most important achievement of his recent scientific production is the development of models of vertical distribution of electronic density in the ionosphere in collaboration with colleagues from the ARPL and of the University of Graz, Austria. One of these models has been adopted in the final output of the European COST 238 action (Prediction and Retrospective Ionospheric Modelling over Europe) and has been the basis for the model adopted by the COST 251 action (Improved Quality of Ionospheric Telecommunication System Planning and Operation). This last model has being used by the European Space Agency for assessment studies related to the development of the European GNSS Augmentation System EGNOS. It has also been adopted as the model for ionospheric corrections for single frequency operation by the European GALILEO satellite system.
He has been the inspirer and organizer of the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) Task Force Activities carried out at ICTP for 11 years consecutively since 1993. These activities contributed substantially to several important improvements of the IRI model electron density characterization.
Since 1989 he has organized and directed at ICTP a series of Colleges, Schools and Workshops, for participants mainly from developing countries, in the fields of Ionospheric Physics, Radiocommunications and Information and Communication Technology.
He has been awarded in 2001 with the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and in 2005 with the Doctor of Science degree Honoris Causa from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.









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