vincenzo schena

Vincenzo Schena was born in Fasano, Italy, in 1961. He received the Master Degree in physics at the University of Bari, Bari, Italy, with the thesis titled “Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) Calibration Devices for Electromagnetic Beams”. In 1990, he got a steady job at Consorzio di Ricerca su Sistemi di Telesensori Avanzati (CORISTA) with the role of remote sensing HW and instruments responsible. In 1993, he was visitor researcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA in the USA to work on NUVS-SR71 (Near Ultra Violet Experiment), a joint venture project between JPL and CORISTA. In 1994, he was at the University of Bari working on the design and implementation of instruments for the calibration and measurements for Synthetic Aperture Radar (active calibrators, scatterometers, etc.) working in L, C and X bands.

From 1995 to 1997, as contractor of Alenia Spazio (Rome), he worked in the engineering team to develop the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation satellite ENVISAT 1 and, in following, on several European Commission (EC) R&D Studies as SECOMS/ABATE, ASSET, SUITED and others Projects covering the role of responsible for the demonstrator prototype development and trial activities. In 1998 he got a steady job at Alenia Spazio (Rome) covering the role of System Engineer at the EuroSkyWay Division working on several Projects concerning the satellite communications. At Thales Alenia Space Italia (former Alenia Spazio) in the Domain Telecommunications Italy Division, System & Network Engineering Department, currently he covers the official role of R&D, Studies and Roadmaps Responsible. Duty of his role is to manage the R&D activities in the frame of Satellite Communication Systems, managing also the proposals’ preparation and Study activities execution. Currently in the international frame of his Company he has been certified and nominated “Expert in Satellite Communication Systems”. As PhD student at Department of Information Engineering, Electronic and Technology (DIET), University of Rome “Sapienza” he has been admitted at the third year of the Doctoral Course. In this role and context he is working on the subject of electromagnetic interferences in the satellite telecommunication (TLC) systems, developing for the commercial TLC satellite systems methodologies at the space level to geo-localise the interference sources at the ground and techniques to counteract the effects of the interferences. He is the author of several papers and technical reports concerning telecommunications and remote sensing, presented at international conferences and technical/scientific magazines and proceedings.