Giuseppe Valente

Giuseppe Valente received his M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, in 2007 and 2016, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he worked at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), France, on developing harmonics mixers at millimeter wave. Between 2009 and 2016, he was with the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Cagliari Astronomy Observatory (OAC), where he worked on the development of the cryogenic receivers for the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). During the same period, he was the supervisor for the front ends of the SRT and the coordinator of the microwave and cryogenics laboratory of the OAC-INAF. Since 2016, he has been a researcher at the Italian Space Agency and currently holds the position of Project Scientist of the Sardinia Deep Space Antenna RF Systems. His research interests include the design of microwave systems for space and astronomical applications; low-noise microwave components and systems; characterization and measurement techniques for microwave components and cryogenic radio receivers. He has co-authored several papers in international journals indexed in Scopus (Scopus Author ID: 36483531300), with an h-index: 18.