Agostino Monorchio was born in Italy, on March 16, 1966. He received the "Laurea" degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph. D. degree in 'Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring,' in 1991 and 1994, respectively, both from the University of Pisa, Italy. During 1995, he joined the Radioastronomic Group at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Florence, Italy, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, working in the area of microwave systems. Since 1997, he has been collaborating with the Electromagnetic Communication Research Laboratory at the Penn State University as a Visiting Scholar. He is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Pisa. His research interests include numerical and asymptotic methods for applied electromagnetics, both in frequency and time domains. He is also involved in research concerning the analysis and definition of electromagnetic models of the scattering from the sea surface for remote sensing applications.