Davide Arenare was born in 1996 in Pavia, Italy. He received the bachelor degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in October 2018 from the University of Pavia. He also received the MS degree in December 2020 in Electronic Engineering - Space Communication and Sensing. The thesis was developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency, in the context of a traineeship program, and it is entitled "Analysis of the effects of snow accumulation on a ground station antenna radome at K-band frequencies". From June 2021 he joined the Microwave Lab first as a research grant holder and then as a Ph.D student, working on the analysis and design of next generation ground stations.