Bibliometric parameters:

h-index: 29, from Web of Science - Thomson Reuters (30/10/2025)

h-index: 30, from Scopus (30/10/2025)

h-index: 33, from Google Scholar (30/10/2025)

Editorial Appointments:

Guest Editor of the volume 60(8) "Studies on Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere from Equatorial to Mid Latitudes - Recent Investigations and Improvements - Part 1" published in the Advances in Space Research journal

Guest Editor of the volume 61(7) "Studies on Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere from Equatorial to Mid Latitudes - Recent Investigations and Improvements - Part 2" published in the Advances in Space Research journal

Guest Editor of the volume 64(10) "Variability and Coupling of the Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere: Latest Developments of Monitoring and Modeling Techniques" published in the Advances in Space Research journal

Guest Editor of the volume 73(7) "Recent advances in equatorial, low- and mid-latitude mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere studies" published in the Advances in Space Research journal.

Guest Editor of the volume 62(4) "From the Sun to the Earth’s interior" published in the Annals of Geophysics journal

Guest Editor of the volume 67(4) "Embracing the past, empowering the present, envisioning the future, 25th INGV Anniversary" published in the Annals of Geophysics journal.

(https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/issue/view/612)

Editor of the volume Miscellanea INGV n. 90 “Dal Sole alla Terra: un viaggio alla scoperta del nostro pianeta”. (https://doi.org/10.13127/misc/90)

Since December 2018. Editor of Annals of Geophysics (https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals)

Since September 2022. Member of the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports (https://www.nature.com/srep/about/editors)

March 2022-September 2024. Review Editor for Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

March 2022-September 2024. Review Editor for Frontiers in Physics

Referee:

Referee for the following journals:

- Nature Astronomy
- Nature Scientific Reports
- Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Space Weather
- Astrophysics and Space Science
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A
- Radio Science
- Remote Sensing
- Applied Sciences
- Annales Geophysicae
- EGUSphere
- Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
- Journal of Advances in Space Research
- Journal of Scientific Research
- Computer & Geosciences
- Earth, Planets and Space
- Pure and Applied Geophysics
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
- Annals of Geophysics
- Acta Geophysica
- Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics
- Ukrainian Antarctic Journal
- AGU books
 
Reviewer of the project “Ionospheric Climate: Developing the Global Reference Ionosphere (I-C-GloRI)” submitted to the European Research Council under the 2025 Starting Grant Call.
Reviewer for project proposals sent to the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.
Reviewer for project proposals sent to the Czech Science Foundation (CSF) of Czech Republic.
Reviewer for project proposals sent to the National Science Centre (NSC) of Poland.
Reviewer for project proposals sent to the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI) of Hungary.
Reviewer for project proposals sent to the Latvian Council of Science (LCS) of Latvia.
 

Conferences organized:

Chair of the session "TEC Algorithms and Radio Occultation" of the International Reference Ionosphere Workshop held in Trieste, Italy, 6-10 October 2025.

Chair of the session "Irregularities" of the International Reference Ionosphere Workshop held in Malindi, Kenya, 9-13 September 2024.

Organizer of a tutorial day on “Ionogram Interpretation and Scaling Tutorial Day” in the framework of the URSI AT-RASC meeting, Gran Canaria, Spain, 19-24 May 2024. (https://www.atrasc.com/programme.php)

Chair of the session “A04 Advances in Mid-Latitude, Low-Latitude and Equatorial Aeronomy” at the 28th IUGG General Assembly, Berlin, Germany, 11-20 July 2023.

Chair of the session “G03 - IRI: Improvement, Validation, Usage” at the URSI GASS Assembly, Rome, Italy, 28 August-4 September 2021.

Chair of the session “D4 - Advances in Mid, Low Latitude and Equatorial Aeronomy” at the IAGA-IASPEI assembly, virtual meeting, 21-27 August 2021.

Chair of the session “C4.1: Improving The Description Of Hemispheric Differences In Ionospheric Models” at the 43^rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, virtual meeting, 28 January-4 February 2021.

Member of the “Scientific Organizing Committee” of the session “C1.1: Recent Advances in Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere Studies” at the COSPAR (COmmittee on SPAce Research) scientific assembly, Pasadena, USA, 14-22 July 2018.

Member of the “Scientific Organizing Committee” of the IAGA national assembly, Rome, Italy, 21-22 February 2018.

Chair of the poster session at the International Reference Ionosphere workshop, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, 13-17 November 2017.

Member of the International Technical Committee at the International Reference Ionosphere workshop, Bangkok, Tailand, 9-13 November 2015.

Convenor of the session “S4: Space Weather effects on HF and trans-ionospheric radio wave propagation” at the 10th European Space Weather Week, Antwerp, Belgium, 18-22 November 2013.
 
Member of the “Scientific Organizing Committee” of the session “C1.1: Recent Advances in Equatorial, Low- and Mid-Latitude Mesosphere, Thermosphere and Ionosphere Studies” at the COSPAR (COmmittee on SPAce Research) scientific assembly, Mysore, India, 14-22 July 2012.
 

Memberships:

Member of the Italian Physical Society since 2013 (https://www.sif.it/).

URSI Senior Member since July 2024, membership number M2430112034.

International and National Appointments:

Coordinator of the division “Aeronomic Phenomena” of IAGA-Italia February 2016-October 2024 (http://www.iagaitalia.it/it/organi.asp).

Member of the International Reference Ionosphere Working Group since 2019 (http://irimodel.org/docs/iri_members.html)

Co-chair of IAGA WGII-E: Ionospheric irregularities, Fields and Waves 15 July 2019 – 15 July 2023 (http://www.iaga-aiga.org/index.php?id=div2)

Visiting Scientist:

Visiting scientist at the South African National Space Agency di Hermanus, South Africa, from March 30, 2025 to April 12, 2025.

Visiting scientist at the Physics and Astronomy Laboratory of the Universidade do Vale do Paraiba (UNIVAP) – São José dos Campos, Brazil:

from March 04, 2015 to March 13, 2015;

from May 15, 2016 to May 28, 2016;

from March 13, 2017 to March 24, 2017;

from November 12, 2018 to November 23, 2018;

from November 17, 2024 to November 27, 2024.