Dr. Anna Guerra


Dr. Anna Guerra received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering at the University of Bologna (UNIBO, Bologna, Italy) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In 2016, she received a Ph.D. degree in electronics, telecommunications, and information technologies from UNIBO. In 2012, she was a Research Assistant in a collaboration project between the Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA LETI), Grenoble, France. From 2014 to 2015, she spent a visiting period at CEA-LETI. From 2016 to 2021, she has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna. During these years (from 2018 to 2020), she received a global Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship for the H2020 AirSens project, and she spent the project’s outgoing phase at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Since 2021, she has been a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Ferrara. In 2023, she received the ERC Starting Grant for the project CUE-GO. She received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband held in Paris, France, and the Best Paper Awards at the 2019 IEEE RFID-TA Conference, Pisa, and the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems, Montreal, QC, Canada. She is a reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. She received the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award in 2022.