Sergio Poppi was born in 1972 in Argenta, Italy. In 1998, he obtained a Laurea degree in Astronomy from the Bologna Univer-sity, with a thesis in the field of astrochemistry. In 1999, he obtained a fellowship grant for studying HII regions by means of radio recombination lines at the TeSRE/CNR Institute in Bologna, From 2002 to 2005, he was at the Istituto di Radioastronomia (INAF) in Bologna, in the framework of the Sky Polarization Observatory. There, he was involved in the characterization of a 32 GHz receiver, optimized for polarization measurements. In 2005, he collaborated with the DEIS (Department of Electronics, Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy), for a project about indoor localization. He is presently at the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory (INAF), in the framework of the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). His current research fields comprise metrology, high-precision pointing for radio telescopes, and software development. ${}$