Giovanni Del Galdo studied telecommunications engineering at Politecnico di Milano. In 2007 he received his doctoral degree from Technische Universität Ilmenau on the topic of MIMO channel modeling for mobile communications. He then joined Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS working on audio watermarking and parametric representations of spatial sound.

Since 2012 he leads a joint research group composed of a department at Fraunhofer IIS and, as a full professor, a chair at TU Ilmenau on the research area of wireless distribution systems and digital broadcasting.  Since 2016, the group has merged with the chair Electronic Measurements led by Prof. Reiner Thomä, giving birth to the Electronic Measurements and Signal Processing (EMS) group.

Since 2017 he is director of the Institute for Information Technology at TU Ilmenau and he leads the VDE-ITG Expert Group HF.2 on Radio Systems.

His current research interests include the analysis, modeling, and manipulation of multi-dimensional signals, over-the-air testing for terrestrial and satellite communication systems, and sparsity promoting reconstruction methods.