Ermanno Fionda received the laurea degree in Physics from the University of Roma " La Sapienza" and the PhD degree in Information Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy.
From 1981 to 1982 he was with the Atmospheric Physics Institute (IFA/CNR) where he worked on the energetic balance in the lower atmospheric layer.
Since 1983 he has been working with the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. His major research experience has been on various influences of the Earth's atmosphere on radio waves for communication and on remote sensing techniques. His current research is concerned with microwave and millimeter-wave propagation with particular focus on scattering, rain-fading analysis, scintillation and remote sensing of the atmospheric properties by passive microwave radiometry, GPS observations and retrieval inversion methods. He has been involved in several European scientific programs (COST), in the ITALSAT experiment, in the ESA/ENVISAT Project and in the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) ASI Project. He was a Visiting Scientist at the NOAA/Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL), Boulder, CO, working on passive microwave radiometric calibration and data analysis.
He is now participating in the incoming new European satellite ALPHASAT Project in relation with propagation beacons at K-Q bands.