P. Diego

Piero Diego was born in Oriolo, Italy, in 1969. He received the degree in physics from Rome Three University, Italy, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in science of the Earth from the University of Siena, Italy, in 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was with the Institute of Interplanetary Space Physics in Solar-Terrestrial relationship physics. Then, he was for several years in Cosmic Ray detectors research field (SVIRCO observatory). During this period, he participated in three Antarctic campaigns from 2005 to 2007 for the installation of a Neutron Monitor for the Cosmic Ray records. After this period, he was with plasma physics research field, studying solar wind perturbations in the interplanetary medium and ionospheric plasma properties as well. He is currently responsible of the INAF-IAPS Plasma Chamber that is a facility able to reproduce the ionospheric plasma at LEO orbit. For this activity, he has received, from the Italian Space Agency, the management role for testing and calibration of several CSES Chinese satellite payloads.