Vittorio Degli-Esposti received the 'Laurea' degree (with honours) and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy in 1989 and in 1994, respectively. From 1989 to 1990 he was with Siemens Telecomunicazioni, Milan, in the microwave communications group.

Since November 1994 he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS) of the University of Bologna, where he is now Associate Professor and teaches courses on radio propagation and wireless systems. He has been a visiting researcher in 1998 at the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York (USA) and in 2006 he held a visiting faculty position and taught the course "Deterministic propagation modelling and ray tracing" at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland.
Vittorio Degli-Esposti participated in the European Cooperation Actions COST 231, 259, 273 and 2100, and in the European Networks of Excellence NEWCOM and NEWCOM++. He was appointed editor of the section on "Deterministic propagation modelling" of the Final Report book of COST 273. He is author or co-author of about 70 peer-reviewed technical papers in the fields of applied electromagnetics, radio propagation and wireless systems. He also serves as reviewer for a number of international journals including several IEEE Transactions. He chaired, organized sessions and served on the Technical Program Committees at several International Conferences, including EuCAP'07, EuCAP'09, ISSSTA'08, EuWIT'08.