Personale docente

Born in Cosenza, Italy, on August 14, 1969.

EDUCATION
- Apr. 1994: Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Pisa, Italy;
- Jun. 2, 1998: Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Parma, Italy.

EMPLOYMENT
- Nov. 1997 - Oct. 1999: Research Associate at the University of Parma, Italy;
- Nov. 1999 - Feb. 2002: Assistant Professor at the University of Parma, Italy;
- Sep. 2000 - Dec. 2000: Visiting Scientist at the Institut Eurécom, Sophia Antipolis, France;
- Mar. 2002 - Dec. 2016: Associate Professor at the University of Parma, Italy;
- Mar. 2012 - Jul. 2013: Member of the Panel for Industrial and Information Engineering for the evaluation of the Italian research system in the period 2004-2010 promoted by ANVUR;
- May 2013 - Dec. 2013: Scientific consultant of RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A. (the Italian public broadcasting company) to support the standardization process of next-generation satellite systems for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-S2x);
- Dec. 2013: National Scientific Qualification as a full professor, Call for candidates 2012;
- Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2016: Member of the Panel for Industrial and Information Engineering for the evaluation of the Italian research system in the period 2011-2014 promoted by ANVUR.;
- Dec. 2016 - Present: Full Professor at the University of Parma, Italy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
- Design of digital communication systems, adaptive signal processing, iterative detection techniques for channels with memory, channel coding, and information theory. From 2003, Leader of the SPADiC (Signal Processing for Advanced Digital Communications) Group (http://www.spadic.unipr.it) at the University of Parma. This Group has scientific collaborations with: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., Télécom Bretagne, Brest, France, Chalmers University, Sweden, Lund University, Sweden, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy, National Laboratory of Photonic Networks, CNIT, Pisa, Italy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, University of Bologna, Italy, Technische Univrsitat Berlin, Germany, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- May 2008 - Dec. 2011: Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- Apr. 2010 - Dec. 2012: Executive Editor for Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (formerly European Transactions on Telecommunications).
- Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2016: Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
- Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2017: Editor for Detection, Decoding, and Synchronization, IEEE Transactions on Communications.
- Technical Program Committee Member for several international conferences, among which the "IEEE International Conference on Communications" (ICC), from 2005 till 2021 and the "IEEE Globecom conference" (GLOBECOM) from 2006 till 2021. He also served as an Area Editor for "Signal processing for communications" for the "14th European Signal Processing Conference" (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence, Italy and as TPC Co-chair for the 1st Workshop on Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation (OTFS) for 6G and Future High-mobility Communications, Montreal, Canada, 2021.
- Frequent Reviewer for the main international journals on digital communications, information theory, and signal processing.
- Frequent Reviewer of international research proposals.

EXPERIENCE AS A PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
He has been the Principal Investigator of many research projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the European Community and multinational companies in the telecommunications sector.

TEACHING
- Teacher of the following courses, all at the University of Parma: "Digital Communications" (2002-present), "Estimation and Detection Theory" (2004-2009), "Communications and Signal Processing" (2002-2015), "Digital Signal Processing" (2001-2004), "Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, and Signal Theory" (1998-2001), "Communication systems" (2023-present), "Probabilistic methods for engineering" (2024-present). He also taught a few short courses for Ph.D. students at European Universities.

- In the past, Advisor of 13 Ph.D. Students and more than 90 Master's Students at the University of Parma.
- At present, Advisor of one Ph.D. Student at the University of Parma.

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
He is coauthor of the book "Detection Algorithms for Wireless Communications", (John Wiley & Sons, August 2004, ISBN: 0-470-85828-1) and of the book "Wireless Communications: Algorithmic Techniques", (John Wiley & Sons. August 2013. ISBN: 0-470-51239-3), of more than 100 papers in leading international journals (9 invited), of more than 150 papers in international conference proceedings (12 invited), and 22 industrial patents. A complete list of publications can be found at http://www.tlc.unipr.it/people/colavolpe/public.html. Some of these papers are cited in recently published books. He also delivered many invited lectures and seminars at Universities and research centers in Europe and USA and invited tutorials at international conferences. He received the best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM'05), Split, Croatia, September 2005, the best paper award for Optical Networks and Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Communcations (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008, and the best paper award at the 5th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conference and 11th International Workshop on Signal Processing for Space Communications (ASMS&SPSC 2010), Cagliari, Italy, September 2010.