A. Cattani was born in 1962. He received the bachelor’s degree in industrial electronics from ITIS O. Belluzzi, Bologna, Italy, in 1981. Since 1983, he has been working with the Institute of Radioastronomy at the Medicina Radio Observatory, Italy. Until 1997, he collaborated in the development of equipment for the control and data acquisition of the Northern Cross radio telescope, while in the following years, he collaborated in the realization of the JIVE European correlator, and then in the development of receivers for the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). After 1997, he was involved in the development of the prototype instruments for the Low-Frequency Aperture Array for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) built in Medicina. He is currently working on the control systems of the new receivers for the SRT and for the two 32-m diameter radio telescopes of Medicina and Noto, Italy. Furthermore, he is developing parts of the intermediate frequency (IF) distribution system for the SRT.