Dr Biagio Forte PhD Dr Biagio Forte - Senior Lecturer
Biagio is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering.
Research
- Physics and chemistry of the upper ionised atmosphere
- Plasma turbulence and instabilities in magnetized plasmas
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in random media, transionospheric radio waves propagation
- Radio wave scintillation (ionospheric and interplanetary), fading processes
- RF engineering, GNSS receiver architecture, phase-locked loops, signal modulation and demodulation techniques
- Space weather phenomena and their effects on satellite navigation and telecommunication systems
- Remote sensing of atmospheres in the microwave, millimetre, sub-millimetre, visible, and infrared parts of the spectrum
- Space missions and space instrumentation
- Radio occultation
- Remote sensing of the Earth’s troposphere by means of LIDARs
- Incoherent scatter radars
- Low-frequency radio astronomy
This person is open to proposals for student research projects
Publications
Career
Biagio joined the University of Bath in 2012 as a Prize Fellow in Space Weather. His fellowship explored countermeasures to mitigate space weather vulnerabilities affecting satellite navigation. He took up his lectureship in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering in 2015.
Education
- BSc in Physics, University of Trieste
- PhD in Geo-Physics, Karl-Franzens University of Graz