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V. Fabbro-was-born-in-le-havre and F. , He received the Diplôme d' ´ Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A) degrees from thé Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'espace (SUPAERO), in 1995, and the PhD degrees in electronics from the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse in 1999. He has been working since November 1999 for the Office National d'Etude et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) at the Electromagnetism and Radar Department where his research activities focus on modelling radiowave propagation effects for radar and telecommunication systems applications, He is currently the supervisor of PhDs on propagation modelling in troposphere and ionosphere, 1972.