Alessandro Calcaterra was born in Rome, Italy, in 1993. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both summa cum laude and highest honours) in Electronic Engineering from “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy, in 2014 and 2017, respectively.

He attended two specialization courses reserved to the highest marks students and a specialization course from ESoA where he could deeply improve his knowledge in antenna design.
In his career, he worked as Microwave designer both for telecommunications and for electronic warfare systems.
Since 2019 he is working as Antenna Engineer in the Antennas and Microwaves Department at Elettronica S.p.A., where he is responsible of several items from the early design stages to the production.

At the same time, he is attending a Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetism at La Sapienza University of Rome, where he is designing novel kind of antennas and developing innovative techniques to improve the electromagnetic propagation in lossy media.

His main research interests are UWB antennas, phased arrays, mathematical models for electromagnetic scattering.