Simone Rusticelli

Simone Rusticelli received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Engineering School, University of Bologna, in 2012. His thesis was about the measurement and characterization of devices using radio-frequency over fiber (RFoF) technique for radioastronomic applications with Prof. G. Tartarini. He received a two-year scholarship from the Engineering School of Bologna during 2013–2015, studying the possibility of decreasing costs using vertical cavity surface emitting lasers for radioastronomical applications and analyzing gain fluctuation problems in analog single-mode fiber systems. He received a scholarship from the National Institute of Astrophysics of Bologna during 2015–2018. He is currently a Non-Permanent Staff in contract at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Institute of Radio Astronomy, where he is involved in developing and testing LNA and RFoF-based receivers for the low-frequency aperture array, as a part of the square kilometer array; furthermore, the possibility to use high-power lasers to feed remote antennas frontend.