Claudio Sacchi (M'01, SM'07) was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1965. He obtained a Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering, and his Ph.D. in Space Science and Engineering at the University of Genoa (Italy). Since 1996 to 2002, Dr. Sacchi worked as research cooperator at the University of Genoa, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) and at the Research Unit of Genoa of National Italian Consortium in Telecommunications (CNIT), where he was involved in the scientific activities concerning research projects in multimedia, wireless and satellite communications (EU ESPRIT AVS-RIO project, ASI-CNIT project 1998-2001, CNR MULTIMEDIALITA' 5% project, DAVID-DCE experiment, etc.). 

Since August 2002, Dr. Sacchi has been holding a position as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Trento (Italy). In 2004, he was appointed by the Department of Information and Communication Technology of the University of Trento as leader of the Research Program titled: "Wireless and Satellite Communications."

The research interests of Dr. Sacchi are mainly focused on wideband mobile and satellite transmission systems based on space, time and frequency diversity, multi-user receivers based on non conventional techniques (neural networks, genetic algorithms, higher-order statistics-based receivers etc), cross-layer PHY-MAC design, and high-frequency broadband satellite communications. He was local coordinator for University of Trento of research projects dealing with reconfigurable communication platforms based on MIMO techniques and space-time signal processing (ICONA project, funded by MIUR) and with exploitation of W-band for broadband satellite communications (WAVE programs, funded by ASI).

Claudio Sacchi is author and co-author of more than 50 papers published in international journals and conferences and reviewer for international journals and magazines (IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Electronics Letters, Wireless Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, etc.). Dr. Sacchi is member of the Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees of international conferences like ICIP, ICC, GLOBECOM, ACM-MOBIMEDIA, etc.

Claudio Sacchi is Senior Member of IEEE and member of the IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.