Cesidio Bianchi, currently holds the position of Research Associate at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
His main research interest is in the field of radio propagation and measurement instrumentation using radio techniques and related signal analysis. He is also interested in the design and construction of analogue and digital electronic devices for measurements in the upper atmosphere and in radio-glaciology. He has mainly studied the theoretical aspects of radio-propagation, is involved in measurements using radio and radar techniques and the development of related instrumentation. With regard to the latter, he has conducted research into the interaction of electromagnetic waves with ionised media and glaciers, designing various radar devices in the HF and VHF bands for this.
As head of the technology laboratory, together with the team of researchers and technologists, he designed various types of electronic and measurement devices, including: an HF-Doppler radar for ionospheric plasma drift measurements, an ionosonde (HF radar with complementary phase code) for measuring electron density in the upper atmosphere, an airborne envelope VHF radar for glaciological applications, and a pulse compression VHF radar designed to be installed on an aircraft to carry out continental-scale surveys in Antarctica. He has also studied the problems associated with ray tracing in anisotropic and inhomogeneous media with the development of software application packages for wave beam path determination and related problems.
He is the author of about 100 publications in leading international journals and several patents on radio and radar instrumentation for geophysical applications.