Giuseppe Cocco (Italy) received his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Signal Theory and Communications department of the “Universitst Politècnica de Catalunya” (Barcelona, Spain) in 2013 with a thesis titled “Application of Network Coding in Satellite Broadcast and Multiple Access Channels”. The thesis has been developed in the framework of the Networking/Partnering Initiative (NPI) of the European Space Agency (ESA).

From July 2010 to July 2011 he stayed at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in the Netherlands as a visiting PhD student.

 In 2009 he was awarded the Networking/Partnering Initiative (NPI) grant by the ESA for his research proposal on gap-filler-less mobile satellite networks. 

In 2008 he was awarded the PhD fellowship of the Technological Center of Telecommunications of Catalonia (CTTC) of Barcelona.

In 2008 he received the MSc degree (Cum Laude) in Telecommunications Engineering from the “Università di Pisa” in Pisa (Italy) with a thesis concerning fair resources allocations in ad-hoc networks based on information theoretical metrics. 

From September 2007 to March 2008 he stayed at CTTC, where he worked on his thesis in the framework of the WIP - An All-Wireless Mobile Network Architecture Project. 

His research interests lie in the fields of satellite communications, network coding and information theory.