Raffaele De Marco was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1994. He received a master degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in 2019, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies with the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronic and System Engineering. His current research interests include reconfigurable antennas for 5G applications and array antennas for satellite communications.