Alessandro Orfei

A. Orfei received the S.M. degree in electronic engineering from Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, in 1983. He worked for three years at the G. Marconi Foundation Laboratories in the field of the fiber optics. Then for three years, he worked in a private company as a Design Engineer in the field of telecommunication. Since 1989, he has been a Researcher at the Institute of Radioastronomy (IRA)—National Council for Research, being in charge of all work concerning the very-long-baseline-interferometry (VLBI) 32m antenna at the Medicina Radio Observatory. This same work continued by changing affiliation to the Institute of Radioastronomy (IRA)—National Institute for Astrophysics, in 2005. He is currently the Head the of Microwave Receiver Group, IRA. His research interests include radio astronomy instrumentation, in particular low-noise microwave receivers, including multi beams and active surface systems for large reflector antennas.