**Guido Masiello**

Guido Masiello teaches at the School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Physics. He works on applied spectroscopy Topics, developing methods and instruments for the retrieval of the thermodynamic state of the Earth's atmosphere. He is a co-investigator in various projects in the area of high spectral resolution infrared sounders from satellites (far and thermal, from 100 to 3.5 micron): IASI, the Infrared Atmospheric Sounder Interferometer of the French Space Agency, CNES, and EUMETSAT, REFIR, the Radiation Explorer in the Far Infrared (a three-years EU project supported within the 4th framework program), MTG-IRS, the Meteosat Third Generation Infrared Sounder (a joint program ESA/EUMETSAT), IASI-NG, the next generation of IASI and the European Space Agency next Earth explorer mission FORUM (Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring).

In the period 2009-2016, he was elected as member (2009 to 2016) of the IRC (International Radiation Commission) and in 2013 and 2014 he worked as a visiting scientist in the Remote Sensing and Product Division of EUMETSAT.

Mr. Masiello was a reviewer for several International Journal of Physics, Optics, and Atmospheric Sciences and for Italian and international research funding agencies.
