**Carmine Serio**

Prof. Dr Carmine Serio received his doctorate in Physics with honor in 1978 from University of Napoli (Italy). He was appointed assistant professor in 1984 by University of Napoli and after 16 years of distinguished academic career in 2000 he became Full Professor of Experimental Physics. At present he teaches and works at the School of Engineering, University of Basilicata (Italy), where he moved in 1992. In 1998 he founded the Applied Spectroscopy group, which he is still leading. Since 1990 Carmine Serio has been performing research in the field of Fourier Spectroscopy, methods and experimental techniques, applied to the study of Environment, Earth Atmosphere, land processes and remote sensing of atmospheric and surface parameters. His experience of Fourier transform infrared spectrometers or FTIR instruments includes ground-based, airborne and satellite platforms. His most important achievements include the first ground-based field observations of atmospheric emitted radiance in the far infrared, which led to a complete validation and revision of state-of-the-art water–vapor continuum absorption models. The observations were performed with a novel detector concept and beam splitter technology for Fourier Transform spectrometers (FTS) which led to the fabrication of two instruments: REFIR and I-BEST.

In the last 20 years, he has contributed to the development of radiative transfer models for application to high spectral resolution infrared observations from satellite (such as IASI: Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) readings and has developed the technique of correlation interferometry for the retrieval of atmospheric trace gas molecules from Fourier transform spectrometer observations. He is currently a member of the ESA/CNES/EUMETSAT teams for the design, development and remote sensing applications of FTIR from polar and geostationary Space platforms. These include the ISSWG-2 (IASI Next-Generation Sounding Science Working Group) team and the MTG-IRS team.
