In 1990 he graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna In 1994 he took his PhD in System Engineering from University of Bologna, Padova and Firenze In 1995 he became a Researcher. Since 1998 he has been a Confirmed Researcher at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. Since 2012 of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DEI) of University of Bologna Since 2001 he has been a member of the II Faculty of Engineering (since 2012 School of Engineering and Archicture) of the University of Bologna where he teachs the following courses: •"Automatic Flight Control" for the second level degree of the international course in Aerospace Engineering •"Automatic Control" for the first level degree courses in Bioengineering and Electronics Engineering for Energy and Information . Since 2001 he has also been a member of ARCES (Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies) an excellence research center of the University of Bologna Since 2004 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the European Doctorate course in Information Technology ( ARCES) (since 2012 Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technologies) Since 2008 he has been a member of the prestigious Technical Committee on Aerospace of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Since 2010 he has been a member of the Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research ICT (CIRI-ICT) and since 2013 also of CIRI Aeronautica, of the University of Bologna. In 2010 he has been assistant coordinator of the PRIN2008national research project "Development of a CUAV (Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for testing new guidance and FTC algorithm for mission and patrolling in hostile environment ". 2011-12: NATIONAL COORDINATOR of the PRIN2008 national research project above mentioned Since 2011 he has been responsible and coordinator for the research project T-RECS (Traffic Report with Enhaced Control of (Airport) Surface), carried out at ARCES along with the industrial partner VITROCISET s.p.a. (italian industry leader in the aerospace field). Since 2013 is coordinator of ENAC (National Authority) Permit To Fly for the fliying laboratory “ LAURA” based on Ultralight Aircraft Ultrapup Preceptor. Since 2012 he is the tutor of the Ph.D. student Pietro Baldi (Ph.D. in Information Technologies, ARCES) and co-tutor of the Ph.D. student Nicola Mimmo (Ph.D. in Automatic Control and Operations Research, at DEI, tutor Prof. Lorenzo Marconi). Since 2013 is a member of the board of the European Project SHERPA (http://www.sherpa-project.eu/sherpa/). My collaboration regards the design of advanced control system for quadrotors and the issuing of the related Permit To Fly. PUBLICATIONS, PLENARY SESSIONS, ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS AND SESSIONS, REVIEWING ACTIVITY Paolo Castaldi is author of about 80 articles published on International Journals and on the proceedings of International Congresses with referee. He is also author of a research book edited by an international publisher in 2010 (in English language) He has been also: -Program Chair and co-organizer of the 8th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD2010), organizer of several invited sessions (SYSTOL2013, ACA2010) -chair of several regular and invited sessions, for example at the American Control Conference 2010 and IFAC Symposium Automatic Control in Aerospace-10 and 13) - Plenary speaker of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2009, and IFAC Congress "Aerospace, Guidance, Navigation and Flight Control Systems", 2009, Samara, Russia. - Reviewer of IEEE Transactions CST,TAC,IE; Automatica;International Journal of Control and other high IF journals INTERNATIONAL AWARD ACHIEVED Outstanding reviewer of Automatica Journal (the most important theoretical journal together with IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control) for the years 2004 and 2005. Third place in international IFAC competition on Wind Turbine FDI