Raffaele Persico is associate professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering (DIAM) of the University of Calabria, in the scientific disciplinary sector GEO11. His main interests are GPR, TDR, Remote Sensing, GIS and Inverse Scattering. He has co-authored 97 papers published on international journals, 4 books, 14 book chapters, 2 Italian Patents and 192 conference contributions. He is Associate Editor of the journals Near Surface Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting and Sensors. He was general Chair of the 13 th International GPR Conference held in Lecce, Italy, in 2010, and he was Publication Chair of 15 th Mediterranean Microwave Symposium held in Lecce, Italy, in 2015, and was Vice-Chair of the 11 th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (IWAGPR), held in Valletta, Malta, in 2021. He has been also President of the Italian Association of the GPR from 2016 to 2023.