Curriculum

Current Position:
Assistant Professor at Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;

 

Complete CV Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11xQj33jp-2FsCaBpx380plAQ7IiLS__4/view?usp=sharing 

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RGe5XFUAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao

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WOS Profile: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1961992

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-4685

ARPI (Archivio UNIPI): https://arpi.unipi.it/cris/rp/rp29142

Researchgate (work in progress): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Motroni-2

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-motroni-a04234128/

List of recent publications: https://people.unipi.it/andrea_motroni/pubblicazioni/

Previous positions:
Post-Doctoral Researcher – Department of Information Engineering – University of Pisa

Main activities:

1. Indoor Radiolocalization of mobile robots with UHF-RFID and Sensor Fusion
2. Outdoor radio-localization based on UHF-RFID technology for safety in agricultural and forest environments
3. Radiolocalization with UWB
4. Smart RFID Gates with artificial intelligence
5. Passive RFID sensing

Awards

• 2026: “Best Young Scientist Paper Award – named after Prof. Roberto Sorrentino”, URSI Italian National Committee Annual Meeting, September 2026 – prize for under 35 researchers
• 2024: “Barzilai Award” received from SIEm (Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo) for Under 35 researchers.
• 2024: Best Paper Award for “How much RF Energy can be Harvested from V2X Communications? An Experimental Assessment” at IEEE GreenCom 2024, Copenhagen (Denmark), August 2024
• 2023: URSI GASS 2023 Commission B Young Scientist Award for “UAV-based 3D localization of passive UHF-RFID tags empowering outdoor stock management”.
• 2022: IEEE Italy Section and ABB 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. Category: Technology.
• 2022: Best Poster Award for “On the Effect of Position Uncertainty of the UHF-RFID Reader Trajectory in SAR-based Localization via UAV” at 2022 6th IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Networking (M&N), Padova (Italy), 18-20 July 2022.
• 2022: Best 2021 PhD Thesis Award in “Civil Engineering and Architecture, Industrial and Information Engineering”, University of Pisa.
• 2021: URSI GASS 2021 Commission B Young Scientist Award for “Smart RFID gate exploiting a Near-Field Focused Array”.
• 2019: Best Paper award for “A Phase-based Method for UHF-RFID Gate Access Control” at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
• 2019: Best Student Paper award (3rd place) for “A Phase-Based Method for Mobile Node Localization through UHF-RFID Passive Tags” at IEEE RFID-TA 2019 Conference (Pisa, September 25-27, 2019).
• 2019: Winner of Contamination Lab Competition – University of Pisa (competition for startups and entrepreneurship).
• 2018: Finalist at the CRFID Educational Mega Challenge on Smart Cities 2018 in Orlando, FL, USA (April, 10-12, 2018). The event was organized inside the IEEE RFID Conference 2018 and the “2018 RFID Journal Live!” event.