Maria Grazia Labate

Maria Grazia Labate received a master’s degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Second University of Naples, Italy, in 2011. In 2008, she worked as a System Integration & Technology Analyst for Accenture S.p.A, and joined the R&D division of Optel InP (at SELEX S.I.) as Phased Array Antenna Designer & Electromagnetic Field Expert. During 2009—2013, she worked as a Radar Antenna Designer & System Analyst in the Innovation Team of SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A., a Finmeccanica Company, where she was the recipient of the “Innovation Award” in 2010. She joined the Antenna Centre of Competence of Astrium Ltd. (EADS) in 2013, and later took part in the SKA Project. She is currently working at the Headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation, which is the entity responsible for overseeing the global activities and international effort to eventually build the world’s largest radio telescope. She joined the SKA Organisation as a System Engineer for the Aperture Arrays and, since 2017, she has been the Telescope Engineer responsible for the design of the overall SKA low-frequency radio telescope (SKA-Low). Her scientific interests include radio astronomy, radio telescopes, aperture arrays, antenna arrays synthesis both in frequency and time domain, and antenna design and characterization. She is the author of several papers published in international scientific journals and proceedings of international conferences. She is also co-inventor of three patent applications.