Giacomo Balistreri started his studies in Electronics Engineering at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2007. He took his Bachelor of Science Degree in October 2013. He continued his studies at the University of Palermo. In October 2015, he received his Master of Science Degree (Magna cum Laude) in Electronics and Photonics Engineering, defending and experimental thesis titled “Terahertz radiation generation and detection methods, for spectroscopic applications, based on photoconductive antennas”.

In November 2015, he started his PhD studies with a jointed supervision of the University of Palermo and the INRS-EMT, about the design and implementation of a new class of devices for Terahertz radiation, aimed at Terahertz signal processing operations.