Fabiola Colone is a Full Professor at the Dept. of Information, Electronics and Telecommunication of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she currently holds the role of Chair of the degree programs in Telecommunication Engineering. She received the degree in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Remote Sensing from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She joined the DIET Dept. of Sapienza University of Rome as a Research Associate in January 2006. From December 2006 to June 2007, she was a Visiting Scientist at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University College London, London, UK. 

The majority of Dr. Colone’s research activity is devoted to radar systems and signal processing. She has been leading research projects and activities funded by the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, the Italian Space Agency, the Italian Ministry of Research, and many radar/ICT companies. Her research has been reported in over 200 publications in international technical journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Colone is co-editor of the book “Radar Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, IET Publisher. She has been co-recipient of the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation.

From 2017 she is member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (AESS) in which she has served as Vice-President for Member Services, and Editor in Chief for the IEEE AESS QEB Newsletters. She is IEEE Senior Member from 2017 and was member of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel from 2019 to 2024. Dr. Colone is the Associate Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems. She was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2017 to 2020. She was Technical co-Chair of the IEEE 2021 Radar Conference (Atlanta, USA) and of the European Radar Conference EuRAD 2022 (Milan, Italy) and she served in the organizing committee and in the technical program committee of many international conferences.