Dr. Pierfrancesco Lombardo graduated in1991 at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. After serving at the Official Test Center of the Italian Air Force, he was associate at Birmingham University (UK) and at Defense Research Agency in Malvern. In 1995 he received his Ph.D. and was research associate at Syracuse University (NY-USA). In 1996 he joined the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where he is presently Full Professor.
Dr. Lombardo is involved in, and coordinates, research projects funded by European and National Research Agencies and national industries. He leads the “Radar, Remote Sensing and Navigation” (RRSN) group at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He chairs the Cosmo SkyMed consulting group for the Italian Space Agency. His main interests are radar adaptive signal processing, radar clutter modelling, radar coherent detection, passive radar and multistatic radar, SAR processing and radio-localization systems.
Dr. Lombardo’s research has been reported in over 320 publications in international technical journals and conferences. He is co-recipient of the Barry Carlton award (best paper) of IEEE Trans. on AES for year 2001 and of the best paper award for the IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing for year 2003.
He served in the technical committee of many international conferences on radar systems and signal processing. He was Technical Committee Chairman of the IEEE/ISPRS Workshop on Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas URBAN’2001, Rome, URBAN’2003, Berlin, and URBAN’2005, Tempe (US). He was also Technical Chairman of the IEEE Radar Conference 2008 in Rome and of the IEEE Radar Conference 2020 in Florence.
Dr. Lombardo was associate Editor for Radar Systems for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) from 2001 to 2021, Technical Editor for Radar System from 2016 to 2022, and Associate Editor-in-Chief from 2018 to 2020 for the same Transactions. He was member of the IEEE AES Radar System Panel from 2007 to 2019. He is member of the Editorial board of IET Proceedings on Radar Sonar and Navigation.