2024-10-082025-06-03http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/40578Maria Grazia Labate was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1982. She received a Master’s Degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Second University of Naples, Italy, in 2011. In 2008, she worked as a System Integration & Technology Analyst for Accenture S.p.A, and joined the R&D division of Optel InP (at SELEX S.I.) as Phased Array Antenna Designer & Electromagnetic Field Expert. During 2009—2013, she worked as a Radar Antenna Designer & System Analyst in the Innovation Team of SELEX Sistemi Integrati S.p.A., a Finmeccanica Company, where she was the recipient of the “Innovation Award” in 2010. She joined the Antenna Centre of Competence of Astrium Ltd. (EADS) in 2013, and later took part in the SKA Project. She is currently working at the Headquarters of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory, which is the entity responsible for overseeing the global activities and international effort to eventually build the world’s largest radio telescope. She joined the SKA Organisation as a System Engineer for the Aperture Arrays and, from 2017 to 2024, she was the Telescope Engineer responsible for the design and delivery of the overall SKA low-frequency radio telescope (SKA-Low). In 2024 she joined the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) as Systems Engineer for MeerKAT Band5 (WP 2000, Activity 2401 MeerKAT-Band5_MeerKAT-Band5), within the project “Strengthening the Italian leadership in ELT and SKA (STILES). Her scientific interests include radio astronomy, radio telescopes, aperture arrays, receivers, antenna arrays synthesis both in frequency and time domain, and antenna design and characterization. She is the author of several papers published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings, and co-inventor of three patents. She is a member of INCOSE.