Andrea Motroni

Andrea Motroni (S’17, M’20) received the M.E. (with honors) degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Ph.D. (with honors) degree in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2017 and 2021, respectively, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in Electromagnetism. In 2020, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria. Dr. Motroni was a Finalist at the IEEE CRFID Educational Mega Challenge (2018), a recipient of Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award at IEEE RFID-TA 2019, and a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science, Commission B in 2021 and 2023. In 2022, Dr. Motroni was awarded with the IEEE/ABB Italy Section award for PhD Thesis and with the “2021 Best PhD Dissertation in the field of Information and Industrial Engineering” from University of Pisa. He won the Best Poster Award at IEEE M&N 2022 and at IEEE RFID 2023 conferences, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE GreenCom 2024. In 2024 he was also awarded with the "Barzilai Award" from SIEm (Italian Society of Electromagnetism). He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification (IEEE JRFID), and he is an executive member of the IEEE CRFID’s Technical Committee on Motion Capture and Localization. He is the Publicity Chair of the IEEE CRFID. He has joined the Organizing Committee and has been Session Chair of several IEEE international conferences. In 2019, he was the President of the IEEE Student Branch of the University of Pisa, for which now serves as Counselor. His current research interests include indoor radiolocalization systems, with specific focus on UHF-RFID and UWB technology for robot and vehicle localization, the integration of robotic systems with RFID towards new systems for industry and logistics, UHF-RFID smart gates and other RFID-based applications for Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and people safety in both indoor and outdoor environments. His research activity is evidenced by more than 70 scientific contributions in International Journals and Conferences, patents intellectual property and leading positions in research projects.